Robots are about to make your beer runs

In the future, your beer will be delivered by by robots that look like big beetles out to set up a golf course. Virginia became the first state in the union on Wednesday to legally allow robots to use sidewalks and crosswalks just like us humans.

Virtual assistants battling for top spot

The Amazon Echo is a homebased digital assistant that can, among other things, play music, control smart-home devices, adjust the climate, order a pizza and arrange for an Uber ride. It’s no wonder titans of tech are locked in an epic battle of the robots, racing furiously to produce the best virtual assistant.

The robots are coming

The future will feature a lot more pizza bots instead of pizza boys if London-based delivery robot maker Starship Technologies has anything to say about it. The robot-focused startup – founded in 2014 by Skype cofounders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis – is on something of a tear at the moment, having just raised $17.2 million from investors that included Daimler.

New wave of robots set to deliver the goods

A January 26, 2016 photo shows the Starship Technologies delivery robot at the Washington Auto Show in Washington, DC. AFP / MANDEL NGAN Washington: The robots of the future will be coming soon, rolling along at a lumbering pace with those goods you just ordered.