Re:‘First Robotic Bar Experience in the World’ Heads to the ...
by clusmore on Monday March 06, 2017 @08:17PM
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I instantly thought of this video snippet [1] from the 80s about a robot bartender, which incidentally I only know from the Mitch Murder song "In the News." [2]
>Finally, the last place you want to see a computer let alone a robot is in your neighborhood bar. Yet it seems the sweep of technology has no limits. In San Francisco this week, the world's first robot bartender was unveiled. The robot can talk, can take spoken orders and can mix two-hundred different drinks. But on the first test run, when the waitress yelled out "Give me a Bloody Mary and a beer," the robot knocked the glass off the bar onto the floor and poured beer all over the counter. The robot's designer said there were still some bugs to be worked out.
>Finally, the last place you want to see a computer let alone a robot is in your neighborhood bar. Yet it seems the sweep of technology has no limits. In San Francisco this week, the world's first robot bartender was unveiled. The robot can talk, can take spoken orders and can mix two-hundred different drinks. But on the first test run, when the waitress yelled out "Give me a Bloody Mary and a beer," the robot knocked the glass off the bar onto the floor and poured beer all over the counter. The robot's designer said there were still some bugs to be worked out.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdRH9Sm_4-0&t=28m12s
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7rK3Eks4s