In Vienna, anyway.
The Roboexotica convention is going on in Vienna right now, and there are 30 robot bartenders mixing drinks for the attendees. Robots were invited to the event (can robots really be "invited" to anything at this point?) to "demonstrate their skills in categories such as mixing cocktails, serving drinks and snacks, bar conversation and smoking cigarettes and cigars." I wasn't aware that it took skill to smoke a cigar or what practical purpose it would serve to have a robot be able to do that, but I'm sure it looks cool as hell.
One of the more popular bartenders is Chapok, who looks like the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz and is trained to make sleazy come on lines to women like "hey you sweet thing, have you ever had a date with a robot?"
God bless Professor Thomas Weber of Holland's Technical University of Darmstadt and his class of budding
scientists. At last, someone is doing some work in robotics that will have an applicable real world benefit to mankind.
The good professor challenged his class to create a robot that pours a pint at precisely the right angle. It looks someone might have to add a fourth law of robotics to Asimov's: "A robot may not drink a human's beer." And get this: the good professor is considering mass marketing his beer-pouring automaton.
Will wonders never cease?
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