Hey, did you know it was National Donut Day? Neither did we, because every day is donut day when you're a blogger with a physique rarely seen outside the cozy confines of our office/futon.

But this isn't just any National Donut Day -- It's National Donut Day 2010. And what's more "of the now" than the latest in donut technology: the Donut Robot at Heartland Brewery's Empire State Building location.

Asylum recently commanded embedded journalist Ryan "Iron Wit" McKee to sneak his camera deep into the restaurant's infrastructure and check out how the Donut Robot works firsthand.

Click through to see the amazing video -- and prepare to witness the future.