We've got plenty of robots more than
happy to
get
behind the bar for a shift, but we wish they could be a little more personable as they make our gin tonic with
soulless precision. We're not talking about dancing on the bar or anything, but we all know how therapeutic a long talk
with your local bottleman can be (we prefer Lloyd at the Overlook). Enter the University of Saarland's
barbot, which
understands voice commands and will
mix you a
drink while telling ingredient-specific jokes (let's hope this feature plays better in German than it would in
English) -- it'll even even tell you the alcohol content of your libation. Thanks though, we'll decide for ourselves
when enough is enough (unless there's also
robo-bouncer
present).
posted Mar 12th 2006 9:56PM
lol funny stuff!
Is he made out of LEGO blocks?
This would be very cool, I hate when bartenders take forever to make drinks, you could probly have 2+ robots going at once.
spellcheck
Actually a lot of the parts and mechanisms are LEGOS as you can see in the screenshots from this video- http://www.robots-dreams.com/2006/03/lego_bartender_.html
If people generally come to bars for socialization, something like this may be bad for long-term sales.
Sure it has great novelty appeal, but when the robot regurgitates the same joke a few hundred times, this machine may wear out its welcome.
--
Jim
http://www.runfatboy.net
lol, it's iZac
Don't you need a license to be a bar tender ?
Haha, Rutch, that's the best reference anyone has made yet!
Yeah but can it understand my drink order when I'm speaking drunk?
Better yet, can it understand my drink order when I'm speaking drunk and with 4 other drunk people yelling their order at it in a crowded pub?
Can it understand this drink order? "Gimme a goose and tonic and a goose straight up no wait a goose on the rocks three no wait four shots of tequila, and four stellas"??
Can it understand that drink order when I'm speaking drunk?
Look! It's an automatic robot based on science!
Who wants to party with the DrinkBot?
Don't forget to check out the DrinkBot!
http://media22a.libsyn.com/podcasts/tiki/TikiBarTV_10.mov
kinda like this "virtual bartender" here? www.thebar.com.
this guy is pretty funny...
But what do you tip a robot?
Well guys, we built this robot to show how easy it is to build a speech interface using our tools. It is NOT meant to be the greatest example of robotics in the world. It was built in only a few weeks using Lego Mindstorms, Pneumatics and some standard Lego bricks.
BTW: We license the software to anyone who wants to make speaking robots. Just contact me at bobbert@clt-st.de
More pictures and movies can be found at http://www.clt-st.de/mico/