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Humanoid Robot Serves Beer
ls129 writes "Humanoid robots are known for their rope-swinging ability and their martial-arts fighting capabilities. However, one humanoid robotics fan trained his robot to do something really useful. His Robotis based humanoid robot can actually pour a bottle of beer into a pint glass."
Apparently, though, his robot is unfamiliar with foaming beer!
Add a temperature/foam sensor to the bugfix list and you're set for v2!
Anyone else noticed it spilled quite a bit?
"Everything worth innovating today will go to court tomorrow."
Yes this is great but does this robot have love?
For those too lazy to RTFA, just go for the pictures. The robot gets down on its knees, and pours the beer BACKWARDS over its head into the mug. It just looks... wrong. But very funny. I'd love to see pictures of the robot doing that in a bar somewhere.....
Who cares? Wake me up when it starts to drink it.
Do..You..Want..Some..More??
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
Pouring beer into a glass! What next, eating pizza with a knife and fork?
"You want some more?"
Why did this make the frontpage of slashdot?
It's just a programmable korean robot that some guy programmed the motions to pour beer, he put a bottle in between the hands of the robot, it spilled quite a bit of beer, and he didn't even take a video of it. I could've staged that in like two seconds with a lego mindstorm kit during the 11th grade in my AP C++ class.
My page.
At least he wasn't pouring crap beer, though,... :-)
That anyone or anything that serves, or tries to serve me beer, is okay in my book.
Finally a useful application for a humanoid robot!
:)
The next step is to attach a shiny metal ass to the robot and teach it to use the precious alcohol to charge the batteries. Then the robot will develop its AI and form a consciousness. Watch your language around this machine though, or it can develop quite a dirty mouth
You can't handle the truth.
So a Rabbi, a Priest and a lawyer walk into a bar and the robot bartender goes "01001001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110011 01101111 01101101 01100101 00100000 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01101010 01101111 01101011 01100101 00111111"
I'm not a Troll, it's reverse psychology.
Did you see the size of the head on that beer???? And the precious beer spilled on the table!!!! That's alcohol abuse!
That's it! I'm calling PFTETOB (People for the ethical treatment of beer)
"I bow to no man" - Riddick
Asahi Brewery (http://www.asahibeer.co.jp/) gave away beer-pouring robots to 5000 people who collected 36 stickers from promotional beer cans. The robot includes a cooler.
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English: http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/01/26/asahis-beer-pou
I initially read the headline as "Humanoid Robot Serves Beer".
Oh my.
I have to point out this is not for enjoyment, unless you find vomiting enjoyable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgunning
beer pouring *Zzzzzzzz* *snork* overlo... Hey! BARKEEP! Another Guinness - and here ya go - get youself a shot of WD-40 !
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
(sadly, american beer standards would also need to rise to the challenge. you know who you are....report to Theakstons for re-education.)
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
Maybe the ads are just misleading me, but I think Asahi sells a robot like that in Japan.
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
I want more beer, fucker.
You don't just need a beer serving robot, you need one that serves CONDOMS too. Oh wait, this is Slashdot, nevermind ;-)
Oh what the heck, here it is - the condom dispensing robot you can build at home.
Oh You POS
Pouring beer into a glass! What next, eating pizza with a knife and fork?
Eating steak with chopsticks.
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
...to click the link to robot martial arts?
Holy crap, those videos are massively hilarious. Thanks for that one.
Some network TV station here in the US of A should pick it up. It'd be far more entertaining than BattleBots ever was.
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#include "frickin_lasers.h"
Beer and Porn.
One group is working on a robot that can dispense beer, the other is trying ot make a robot that looks like a human in every way.
wait till these two meet up and we get a Sex Robot that dispenses beer for you, there wouldn't be a reason to go to a bar ever again.
Tom, what makes you say that? Some beers simply must be poured into a glass (bottle conditioned), like many home-brew real ales, and even some continental beers are bottle conditioned, although this is much less common considering the use of S. cerevisiae in Lagers makes it unpractical.
That aside, I will still drink most lagers from a glass as preference, and all ales, with only small (33cl) bottles being consumed directly. How are you supposed to get a decent head without a pour?
Oh and freezing your beer, are you MAD man? It needs to be be at the storage temperature: a couple of degrees for ales, -5 odd for lagers, but shouldn't be starting to freeze.
REAAAAAAAAAL ALEEEEEEEEEE - CAMRA MemberAnd flying cars? Where are they? I want a flying car NOW dammit. Whats up with technology? These things have been planned and expected for over a century now.
D'oh, in my tired state I confused S. cerevisiae and S. uvarum. Sorry guys.
I don't know where you're from, but most beers are supposed to be poured into glasses for full enjoyment.
Another CAMRA member, from Canada tho. :)
What I want to know, is it free as in speech, or...
I never clip my fingernails for fear of dangling symbolic links.
Humanoids serve beer for robots!
I'm not sure taking beer out of a perfectly good bottle counts as useful. If this keeps up, people are going to start thinking robots are for pansies. What we need is a robot that pours beer from a glass back into the bottle, and then only gives you the beer back after you beat it at arm wrestling, or maybe a game of 8 ball.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
A robot that serves drinks?
Um, can anyone say "I have need for you on the master's Sail Barge?
(R2-D2 did this over 2 decades ago)
No sig.
Because it just passed the common man's version of the Turing test. Plus a little robot carrying a beer that is as bigger than the robot itself is just cool.
...cold beer? COLD beer? Cold vodka I can see, but anyone who tries to put my Guinness in the fridge is going to get bitten.
Well, you know the old saying: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo". - $RANDOM
We have porn, and beer-serving robots. Finally, we don't need women anymore. Science is good!
Table-ized A.I.
Why couldn't they have come up with this before I got married?
This is the kind of crap the Mafia used to do. It's a protection racket. "Hey, maybe youz should pay me fifty bucks, so's that nothing happens to yours QuickBooks file."
Dear god, this argument again?
European: "Your watery swill you call 'beer' has to be served at cryogenic temperatures before anyone can stand to drink it!"
American: "The only thing your piss-icky room-temperature sludge has going for it is that it has alcohol in it."
Let's all just agree that Skittlebrau is the best beer.
This reminds me of a great joke..
A guy walks into a bar, and sees that there is a robotic bartender behind the bar. He shrugs and sits down. The robot comes over and says, "Hey, I'm the Autobot, what can I get you to drink, and what's your IQ?"
The guy says, "I'll have a Jack and coke, and my IQ is 140."
Well, the autobot makes him a perfect drink, and starts talking to him about theology, nano-technology, and even some philosophy.
The guy is impressed. He finishes his drink, pays his tab, leaves, and comes right back in.
He sits down at the bar, and the robot comes over and says, "Hey, I'm the Autobot, what can I get you to drink, and what's your IQ?"
The guys says, "I'll have a screwdriver, and my IQ is 110."
Well, the autobot makes him a perfect drink, and starts talking to him about movies, literature, women, and even some sports.
The guy is still impressed. He finishes his drink, pays his tab, leaves, and comes right back in.
He sits down at the bar, and the robot comes over and says, "Hey, I'm the Autobot, what can I get you to drink, and what's your IQ?"
The guys says, "I'll have a Miller Lite, and my IQ is 70."
The robot poors him a perfect beer, and then comes over to the guy and says REAL SLOW... "So you gonna vote for Bush again?"
Aero
Please stop hurting America -- Jon Stewart
At least until they make those Japanese and Korean androids anatomically correct.
Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/ 05/0040225&from=rss
This one can mix drinks! Unfortunately the page is only in finnish. But in the bottom of the page there are couple of videos.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=2006 0531-014157-3548r
Now, if a commercial version of these robots could somehow brew beer on its own, I'd be first in line to buy!
This is a hacked account, for which the owner can not be held responsible.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
because slashdot editors don't know that the surest way to ruin a beer is to pour it into a glass
How else are you supposed to drink it, right from the barrel? Maybe if you're Barney Gumbel. Bottled beer is gassy so you need to pour it into a glass and let it rest so the gas can escape.
and that the best way is to put the bottle into the freezer a half-hour before opening it, so that it's decently chilled
When it's that cold how are you supposed to taste it? Oh wait maybe you're American, sorry my mistake.
It's nice that someone has made bender.
http://www.karakuri.info/
Robotis? Spilled beer, awkward motion, weird beer pouring form, rigid looks, looking very primitive with attached wires...
Karakuri puppets looks much better by these standards.
"Don't let fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
I'm only just turned 18, so planning to get CAMRA membership soon(ish), but *applauds*.
Bloody American 'beer'.
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
I'm sick of having to get up off the couch. They should have had this 20 years ago!
I don't think this robot made something new, see for yourself ;)
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NEXT!
When it's 100 degrees outside (and it gets that here in Montréal quite a lot in the summer) there's something to be said about putting a nice cold bottle on the back of your neck for a few seconds to cool off, then popping the top, watching the first inch turn into slush, and slowly *enjoying* it.
Wake me when it can properly pour a Black & Tan. THAT'S an accomplishment... ;)
This is definitely a regional / cultural thing. Personally, I accept that American beers are a different product from European beers. American = refreshing / cool. European = flavorful / filling. They both have their place.
I have a question for any beer drinking experts out there. There is another cultural difference within the beer-in-a-glass group I know about but have not gotten a handle on. Some people poor beer down the side of the glass to preserve the carbonation and make it easier to drink. Some people pour directly in the middle of the glass to create a "good head" ( "huh huh. You said..." ) I am the former type and I am from the Midwest US. What part of the world does the later?
Oh, and just to stay on topic:
"I, for one, welcome our new beer pouring overlords."
"Long time listener, first time caller."
Three reasons to prefer bottles over glasses:
(* yes, I've done that to people, and yes, I'm evil :-)
Beer goes flat quicker if its poured into a glass (the glass is usually at room temperature, and the pouring makes it lose some of the carbonation).
Hmm...beer doesn't usually last long enough around me to lose carbonation. You must be a slow drinker!
Kanuckistani... beautiful.
Post-rock/Ambient/Drone and other noise.
Lack of imagination or lack of ........?
How many beans make five, anyhow ?