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Koolio, the Beer Delivery Robot
Ipingforpong writes "Recently a University of Florida engineering student named Brian Pietrodangelo built a mini fridge named Koolio that when you place an order through the website, will deliver a cold soda, beer, or various candy to you. Right now it's only available in one building at University of Florida but soon it could catch on in office buildings and other places."
Another excuse to avoid women
does it clean up the barf also?
Table-ized A.I.
Instead of missing that knock out punch Koolio could deliver you, and all your friends, beer all night long. You have this luxury 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Find a human to do that.
Wait... I thought that's what wives are for
I'm really starting to consider marrying my computer...
...don't question it!!!
for a second there I thought koolio was a beer drinking robot..
did you forget to take your meds?
Forget defusing bombs and finding victims buried in rubble.... This robot is damn useful with real world potential!
That's right. All your base.
...until someone hacks it and they catch it wandering down the interstate towards my college.
You can tell these kids are going to make it in the business world...
He provides no source nor price for such key components as Sonar, LCD, IR detectors, Motors, and Wheels. You can almost hear the future bean counter cutting them a check for $260 for this project and laughing.
But what happens when there is no beer in the fridge? Is it going to roll its ass down to the 7-11 and pick up a six pack and restock itself?
Nice, but does it play Gangsta's Paradise while roaming around the hood of your range vent?
When I was going to college in San Francisco, I lived in the dorms and right around that time (1998) cookiesnmilk.net opened, targeted at us more lit folk as a solution to midnight snacking needs. It was great-- warm, delicious cookies delivered to your door with cold milk. Gradually the company had the mistaken notion they could make bigger money by catering to the office crowd. Never heard of them after a certain point, their website is no longer. Oh well. Keep with the college kiddies.
Here is some evidence of their existence. I have a photograph with a delivery person that is an utter classic.
d. Taylor Singletary,
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The images on the home page actually made me think that this bot was more advanced than it really is...
Instead of having an on-board fridge... why not send it down to in-building vending machine, where it completes the transaction against the student's account, and then grabs the item and take it where it needs to go for delivery.
That'd give it a much wider inventory and an ability to serve a wider audience than just one person.
Now if we could just set it up with speakers, mp3 player and a little disco ball......
Please have been delivered by 12PM tomorrow. Thanks!
*twitch*
Hospitals have been using robots similar to this for years, check out these two links...i candplace. html
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http://marc.med.virginia.edu/projects_p
http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/1999/39/autom
However, I dont think you would want to mix up the fridge robot with one of these by accident, HEY! thats not Cherry Coke, its blood!
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will it say "Bede bede bede..." when it hands you the beer?
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Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto!
From the description:
Right. So instead of taking 30 seconds to get to the fridge and back, I'll pull out my laptop, login to the robot control server, place my order, then wait for the bot to get my drink to me; at best this takes 2 minutes
Its a cool idea, I'll admit, but maybe not the most practical. Especially since when I launch my browser to login to the robot server, my home page is /. and it takes me 20 minutes to read and comment on new stories. Now, where was that work I actually meant to be doing right now...
Even heroes have the right to dream
But what when, having drunk that beer, you really gotta piss, what's Koolio gonna do for ya then, can it help with that as well?
that's gotta be one hot piece of hardware. I'd bet it'd be hard to keep thieves at bay.
This thing would never survive in a dorm environment. The payload will always be stolen, and it'd be constantly knocked over by people who just want to be jerks.
However it might work just fine within a "friendly" office environment...
Now he's gonna get sued by both Coolio AND Lucas.
This robot doesn't look like it can hold a lot of beer. It would be cool if this robot could restock itself and rotate the cold beers to the front and the warm ones to the back. Anyone know anything about the robot from the Rocky 4 movie? Are their such things in the making?
Mark
See, this document reveals that although this project is ahead of schedule, the prototype won't even be done until August. :)
Not only that, but foraging for beer is fun. Think of it as a group activity that builds teamwork, and makes long lasting friends. Having a robot might be neat for a while, but half the fun of beer is getting it. It is a quest... The quest... for the Holy Beer!
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
A. The server only takes orders from on-campus ips.
B. The robot is turned off for the night.
C. We have just slashdotted a Refrigerator.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
... but there is plenty of data regarding how females actually destroy the geniuses they encounter by becoming demanding, selfish and annoying enough to trigger deep bouts of depression, and even suicide. When geeks find a really special woman, they still have to avoid *other* women, so there's no change there, really (meaning: it's good to avoid women, and practice that because it keeps you honest).
What we need is a robot that delivers women! (women who are genetically altered to be quiet, compassionate and understanding of what it is to be geeks; or at the very least, cool enough to chill when papa's coding)
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
I'm a Junior at UF, and I took a graduate class in robotics this semester, and I've seen the robot a few times sitting at it's docking station in one of the rooms on the 3rd floor of Benton. It was also supposed to be demonstrated at this semester's demo day for our class (even though it wasn't part of the class, they just like to show what all the robots that the Machine Intelligence Lab is working on) but it had broken the night before. It does look pretty impressive in real life though just sitting there, but I wish I could report back how it acted in person.
I'm sorry Dave but I can't do that. You're a little fat to be drinking soda Dave.
From the web page:
"It locates room 326 and delivers Dr. Nechyba his Diet Coke thus averting disaster."
He would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids!
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
are you normally an asshole, or just play one on slashdot.
Though Koolio is pretty darn cool, I wouldn't want one around the office. I like having an excuse to get up and walk to the other end of the building now and then (getting my own coffee, thank you).
All we need now is a "Shtoolio" waste collection robot and I won't have any excuses to get up at all!
In Australia, we already have it...
http://pcblues.com - Digits and Wood
now bob has to get up off his ass and walk to the refrigerator. now THAT would be tragic.
All your preview button are belong to hello kitty.
I got one of those too. It's supposed to be one of the higher end models, but it's not doing any of that! I even have the dongle installed on its finger!
Apparently you're supposed to get another dongle and have it installed in front of witnesses. Seems the first one is just for show.
Other methods to keep the beerbot safe:
- Give it a live webcam to shame vandals (if they have any shame that is).
- Give it a GPS locator.
- Make it shriek in a loud female voice if abused...
--Power to the Peaceful
The problem is that I STILL have to stock Koolio. What's worse is that I STILL have to go to the store and buy the cases of beverages to LOAD in Koolio. Finally, Koolio can not take a crap or urinate FOR me. I am really dissappointed. Where has good ol' American innovation gone? Why am I still required to wear clothing, bathe, and work? Koolio simply doesn't fit in to my busy sloth-like lifestyle yet. Back to the drawing boards guys.
"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."- Steven Wright
No, you stupid robot! You are supposed to give it to *me*, not drink it yourself. And stop that disco shit, will ya?
Table-ized A.I.
Like trawl the neighbourhood bars until it can find some cheerleaders to smuggle back your room
I'm sure we can deliver an inflatable woman with the beer. The right robot could probably even inflate her for you. And we'll throw in a free pizza while we're at it. After all, we wouldn't want an idiot like you out on the streets. (Shut up papa, mamma is coding)
-- it must be true, it's on the internet.
The Computer Science House at Rochester Institute of Technology has built 2 networked soda machines, and is currently working on building a robot that delivers the soda to the rooms. I'd like to actually see this U of F robot in action, because one of the problems RIT is having is difficulties avoiding hazards, like people...
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"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
-- George Orwell
Well, as an amateur, spending my evenings and weekends over the last two years trying to develop a robot ( my first one was a disaster, but my current one has much promise ), whenever I talk to someone about it the first question they ask is "you mean like in battlebots?"
My response is always "I'm not making it for fighting, and if I did, it would get its shiny aluminum ass stomped" ( my robots are legged, and therefore somewhat slow ).
So... they think for a few seconds and ask "will it bring you beer?"
"Maybe someday" I respond.
It's kind of depressing. Here I am trying to make something interesting -- I'm doing private research into behavioral / automata brain design. I firmly believe I can make something as agile and graceful as a cat, or at the very least a retarded cat. But so far I haven't delved into image processing or even goal oriented behavior except for "follow the heat signature". But I think it's wonderful stuff anyway.
Yet people only care about wether its a battlebot or a beerbot.
Fie on them all.
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Too many beers from your robot fridge? Time to call in the robot urinal! Never leave your couch again! Hooray for bedsores!