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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
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.
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.
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Hospitals have been using robots similar to this for years, check out these two links...i candplace. html
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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.
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.
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... 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)
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I'm sorry Dave but I can't do that. You're a little fat to be drinking soda Dave.
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.
does it clean up the barf also?
Guy 1: Where were you last night? I tried to call you.
Guy 2: Dude, I was just hanging out by myself and up comes Koolio. And you know how he's always all "hey, you probably want a beer, don't you?" Well, to make a long story short, I woke up naked on the floor and Koolio was next to me wearing my shirt...
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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