--- description: Want fries with that? title: Watch What Happens When a Robot Rocks Up at a Drive-Thru image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Some Evil Genius Sent a Robot To a Fast Food Drive Thru and Freaked Everyone Out by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 4, 2015 3:56 PM CUT by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 4, 2015 3:56 PM CUT We live in a world where Amazon wants to start [delivering via drones](http://time.com/3976057/amazon-air-zone-delivery-drones/ "undefined"), [Uber will deliver you food](http://time.com/3838071/ube-food-delivery/ "undefined") and, when you push a button on apps like Seamless, food just magically arrives at your doorstep. So it shouldn’t be that surprising that robots are now picking up food from drive-thrus for us. But somebody forgot to tell the clerks that news. In a new prank from YouTube user [MagicofRahat,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdggQr05LAA "undefined") a robot rolls up to the drive-through windows of fast food restaurants and, predictably, terrifies the poor restaurant workers. While many of the clerks simply shriek and run from the windows, those who wait are greeted by the robot who introduces itself as “IO.” Reactions to the robot vary, though one cashier shrugs and asks the robot “Please don’t be Ultron, okay?” That seems like a reasonable request. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3983693/robot-drive-thru/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3983693/robot-drive-thru/"},"headline":"Some Evil Genius Sent a Robot To a Fast Food Drive Thru and Freaked Everyone Out","datePublished":"2015-08-04T15:56:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:00.424Z","description":"Want fries with that?","url":"https://time.com/3983693/robot-drive-thru/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","robots","Pranks"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3983693/robot-drive-thru/","name":"Some Evil Genius Sent a Robot To a Fast Food Drive Thru and Freaked Everyone Out"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"See How Robotics Are Disrupting What It Means to Be Disabled","description":"At the Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL) in Pittsburgh, Pa., veterans, engineers, doctors and researchers are working together to improve the lives of people with disabilities.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/MM0tk7XQ/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-07-28T17:47:13.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/MM0tk7XQ.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3983693/robot-drive-thru/","duration":"PT4M21S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3983693/robot-drive-thru/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```