The robot server is valued at approximately $18,000 but would have been worthless to the would-be thief, Pho 21 owner Tony Ngo told ABC 7 News. The bot requires specialized programming — making ...

Employees at a California pho restaurant stopped a would-be thief from kidnapping their $18,000 robot coworker last Saturday as the man awkwardly struggled to load the mechanical server into his car.

The little robot that could was not harmed and is back to serving up pho to its hardwiring's content. California pho restaurant workers stop would-be thief from kidnapping $18K robot co-worker ...