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[Ultimuh]

My only question is when will they work at the coffee shop.

After you beat Mocha Man.

I'm posting just to say this was the greatest.
Anyway, I was honestly surprised by this, but not THAT much. I fully support our new robot overl friends.

Yeah you submit yourself to them.. I'll just have to figure out a way to combine my brain to their neural network internet thing, so that they all will be in my command! MUWAHAHAAH!

[Shambling Zombie]

I bet it would freak people out even more if the robot moved over to a nearby table, and ate the scone slowly while commenting on the quality of it.

[Max White]

I know I would be more then a little freaked out... It would be a basic human instinct that if something comments on quality, it has the capasity to asess quality, and that would imply that the robot can subjectivly evaluate something.

The fact that it could just be chewing and selecting random phrases from a list of either 'good' or 'bad' phrases is irrelevant.

[Rilder]

On this day, I will DEY TUK AR JERBS!

For some reason I imagined a bunch of rednecks trying to get robots declared sentient so that they could be declared (Illegal) immigrants and thus being able to be deported.

[Virex]

Does it have the ability to taze people remotely? Count me out until it does. Otherwise I predict a brief period of novelty, followed by a wave of vandalism attacks on them by teenagers who realise that the guy at the other end is

1. Too rich for his own good
2. Far away
3. Probably horribly out of shape.

On the other hand, attacking a robot with a video camera attached to it is probably not something you'd get away with easily.

*edit* I just checked their website out... how the hell does that thing carry a scone? It doesn't have any arms!

This reminds me of the concept of Robot Bashing Isaac Asimov described in some of his novels. Because of the 3 laws of robotics, Robots can never hurt a human being, which means it's next to impossible for them to defend themselves, something that is abused by spunky teenagers to beat the sense out of (humanoid) robots without fear of retaliation.

[Duke 2.0]

Video cameras commonly have a small range of vision.

Google Street View would care to disagree, and it makes sense that you'd want a thing like that on your robot. 

It's more than one camera, and would you really want that expensive equipment on your coffee robot?

[Fossaman]

I'm disappointed that it's just a telepresence rig instead of an autonomous robot, but that's still pretty dang cool. I was especially amused by the barista asking if they wanted it 'for here or to go.'

[alway]

Judging by the tone of voice used by the barista, so was she.

[Omegastick]

You know, in 1000 years when the internets have been destroyed and the human race is digging up old websites they will see this topic and think, "Why the hell were they surprised that a robot ordered a scone?"

[Aklyon]

No, they'll be asking "What the heck is a scone?" first, since all the cookbooks will be virtual sometime before then but after now, so no one will know how to cook things.

[Darvi]

We'll probably be speaking nadsat then.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

You know, in 15000 years when the internets have been expanded destroyed and the human race is digging up old websites they will see this topic and think, "Why the hell were they surprised that a robot ordered a scone?"

Fixed.