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A robot-made pizza startup had the perfect cameo on the latest episode of 'Silicon Valley'

Blink and you might have missed it, but robot-made pizza startup Zume Pizza made a cameo on HBO's "Silicon Valley."

The robot-made pizza had a small cameo on season four of HBO's Silicon Valley.

Part of the brilliance of HBO's sitcom "Silicon Valley" is that leans on real-life people and events to show the silliness inherent in the tech industry. Some of its gags are so nuanced, they're easy to miss.

On the second episode of season four, the gang sits around the table eating pizza and tossing a ball. Eventually, Erlich, a character who owns the startup incubator where they live, moves the party outside and takes the pizza boxes with him.

Blink and you might have missed it, but the boxes were round and made of something other than cardboard. It's the only tell-tale sign that this was no ordinary pizza. In fact, the pizza — made by pizza delivery startup Zume Pizza — was created by robots. The characters never mentioned the pizza, nor were they shown actually eating it.

In addition to looking unusual, the boxes are made from sustainably farmed sugarcane fiber, which is recyclable and compostable. The bottom of the container has sloped ridges and a recess in the center that force liquids to pool where they won't touch pizza and make it soggy in transit (though you can't make those details out on the show).

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After the episode was taped, Thomas Middleditch, who plays Richard on the show, met with Zume Pizza cofounder

Zume Pizza currently delivers robot-made pizza in Mountain View, and is gearing up for an expansion across the South Bay.

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