The upcoming animatronic horror film Five Nights at Freddy’s (opening in theaters and on Peacock today!) and the video game of the same name on which it’s based, take their inspiration from a wave of robot-themed restaurants which swept the nation in the last decades of the previous century. In a way, it’s fitting that foam-covered restaurant robots would end up in a popular video game, because video games are responsible for their creation. Let's look at how animatronic restaurant mascots came