Heineken Bot Looks Cool, Pours Light
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 9 of February , 2010 at 3:21 am
This Heineken pouring robot from Middlesex University was strutting its stuff at the Kinetica Gallery in London recently, driving around a table and pouring beer (a very little bit of beer) on demand. The bot is equipped with obstacle avoidance sensors as well as a sensor on top that you can wave at to signal the robot to stop and serve you… Plus it has what looks like a giant emergency STOP button just in case it decides to, uh, try and run over someone. Don’t kid yourself, though, there’s (potentially) a lot of energy in a beer keg, so in the event of a battery fire, it would likely be best to panic.
If you’re interested in having a robot serve you a drink, flirt with you, and/or dump a beer all over itself, there’s an event here in San Francisco called BarBot, which is just like, but not exactly the same, as RoboExotica/RoboExoticUS. BarBot will be at DNA Lounge on Feb 17th and 18th… $10 advance, $15 at the door.
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Comment by DriesDD
Made Tuesday, 9 of February , 2010 at 4:34 am
The beer wasn’t tapped too well. The head was way too big. They should work on that, and pick another brand of beer too.
But it sure looks cool!