Pizza Hut will realize in the United States that robots can distribute their pizzas

Pizza Hut will merge two of America's favorite pastimes: pizza and delivery trucks, to an attempt to reduce delivery times as competition in the fast food sector intensifies.

As part of the restaurant's last partnership with Toyota, Pizza Hut launched a mobile pizza machine operated by a robot.

The prototype will use automated technology to prepare pizzas on the fly in six to seven minutes, which will allow the chain to extend its delivery area without cooling them.

"We are getting closer to the oven at the consumer's door and no one else is doing it," said Nicolas Burquier, director of customer operations and customer operations at Pizza Hut.

"We are rather obsessed with improving the customer experience. The closer we get to their home or delivery point, the hotter and hotter the product will be."

The chain, a division of Yum! Brands, seeks to reverse the poor performance of deliveries and reach customers beyond their catering destinations.

The road has been tough so far, with Pizza Hut recording an unexpected drop in same-store sales in the second quarter. The company will release the results of the last quarter on Wednesday.

There is no date for the launch of the "robotic robot," said Burquier.

The Pizza Hut announcement comes shortly after the signing of an agreement in January Toyota's Mobility Alliance that will develop completely autonomous vehicles. However, the Tundra hydrogen-powered truck used in the badociation will not be self-sustaining, Burquier said.