{"id":1031241,"date":"2026-08-26T09:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031241"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:29:29","slug":"when-robots-begin-serving-more-than-just-food-in-pakistans-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/26\/when-robots-begin-serving-more-than-just-food-in-pakistans-restaurants\/","title":{"rendered":"When robots begin serving more than just food in Pakistan&#8217;s restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Syed Usama Aziz, an electrical engineer, has a dream: to popularise the use of humanoid robots in Pakistan&#8217;s consumer market. And he seems to have set the ball rolling. <\/p>\n<p>Several restaurants in Karachi, Lahore and Multan are using robots made by Aziz\u2019s start-up, Cobot, based out of Multan. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe manufacture robots locally using hardware, circuit boards and fibreglass bodies. We also handle the programming,\u201d Aziz, a graduate from the National University of Sciences and Technology, told PTI on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syed Usama Aziz, an electrical engineer, has a dream: to popularise the use of humanoid robots in Pakistan&#8217;s consumer market. And he seems to have set the ball rolling. Several restaurants in Karachi, Lahore and Multan are using robots made by Aziz\u2019s start-up, Cobot, based out of Multan. \u201cWe manufacture robots locally using hardware, circuit boards and fibreglass bodies. We also handle the programming,\u201d Aziz, a graduate from the National University of Sciences and Technology, told PTI on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031248,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031241\/revisions\/1031248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}