I’ll See Your Barbot and Raise You a Cruise Ship
B1-0 and N1-C are the world’s first robotic bartenders on a cruise ship. Watch them “makr shakr” your drink at sea!
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Roboexotica Celebrates its 15th Year
The number one destination for barbot enthusiasts is Roboexotica, a festival held every year in Vienna.
MAKE at RoboGames: Highlights
I’ve already shared some images of combat and humanoid robots from RoboGames, but there’s a lot more to see than just that. Here’s a slideshow of “the rest”, which there was quite a lot of.
Bartendro Make me a Drink
MAKE’s next issue is about to head to the printer and will hit newsstands April 23. In it, we’ll feature the “water-to-wine cooler” project, a device created by drink makers Robert Kaye and Pierre Michael of Party Robotics that seems to turn water into wine. Apparently fascinated by fluid dynamics and automatic alcoholic beverages, the duo has now launched a campaign for Bartendro on Kickstarter. Bartendro uses peristaltic pumps and CNC milled parts that they say precisely dispenses cocktail and after cocktail within one mililiter of accuracy
Drinking In The Future at Barbot SF 2012
Most of the Barbots and their teams are returnees from previous years, but as with the DARPA Grand Challenges, the…ah… bar raises very quickly from one event to the next as the innovations pour forth. This year’s bots were all beautiful, with gracious interfaces.
Photos From BarBot 2012—One More Night (Tonight) in San Francisco
Windell and Lenore of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories clued me into BarBot 2012, which started last night and continues tonight. If your dream is to have robots pour you mixed drinks, this is where you need to be tonight. BarBot is a celebration of cocktail culture and man-machine interface. Get a drink from an actual […]
EMSL is Back with a New Drink Making Unit
A lot of us saw a tantalizing glimpse of EMSL‘s sweet new barbot on the most recent episode of Make: Live, and here it is! Twice the pumps, twice the ingredients and twice the radness of last year’s model. My favorite part are the beakers cut into spouts that dip down to dispense the ingredients […]
