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Science marches on: MIT builds a three-armed robot bartender
By adamg on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 10:21am
GigaOm introduces us to the Makr Shakr, a joint venture between MIT, Coca Cola and Bacardi to put bartenders out of work let you customize drinks via your smartphone (with as few vowels as possible).
MIT boasts that Makr Shakr can not only mix drinks, but can also monitor alcohol consumption and blood alcohol levels. So while it may not wipe down glasses while listening to your troubles, the Makr Shakr has a lot going for it should anyone decide to turn it into a production robot.
Via Boston Eater.
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It apparently isn't any good
It apparently isn't any good at making recommendations either, considering it's serving Bacardi.
But does it know what I like?
I mean, I usually know what I like. But a good bartender will say "hey, if you like xxx then you might want to try a dash of zzz in your martini" because he or she knows you.
The iBarTender will use the
The iBarTender will use the same genius algorithm for alcohol as it does for the music selection
Huzzah!
Huzzah! Gin & drain cleaner cocktails for all!
Simple
When the 'Drink' button is pressed it makes an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism, and then sends tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centres of the subject's brain to see what is likely to be well received. However, no-one knows quite why it does this because it then invariably delivers a cupful of liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea - er - Scotch.
On the other hand, this
On the other hand, this bartender will never get sick of pretending to like you to get better tips.
I Like my bartenders to have a pulse..
but if they can teach it how to fold laundry, I'll buy it!
Wake me when they are serving .....
If anything was designed to make a
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, this is it:
"Take the juice from one bottle of that Ol' Janx Spirit.
Pour into it one measure of water from the seas of Santraginus V
Allow three cubes of Arcturan Mega-gin to melt into the mixture (it must be properly iced or the benzene is lost).
Allow four litres of Fallian marsh gas to bubble through it (in memory of all those happy Hikers who have died of pleasure in the Marshes of Fallia).
Over the back of a silver spoon float a measure of Qualactin Hypermint extract, redolent of all the heady odours of the dark Qualactin Zones.
Drop in the tooth of an Algolian Suntiger. Watch it dissolve, spreading the fires of the Algolian suns deep into the heart of the drink.
Sprinkle Zamphour.
Add an olive.
Drink...but very carefully."
You get the sense...
That the process of "cutting a patron off" might end up a bit messier than it is now... Like torn in half bad...
Maybe a man torn in half at an Allston Bar...
A manager at Square in the Tavern in Allston had to explain to the Boston Licensing Board today why nobody at the Brighton Avenue bar called police after a patron was allegedly torn in half and thrown into a passing garbage drone truck by a robotic bartender on March 16.
That's because none of it happened, manager Dylan Patrick told board members at a hearing today. All 3d Google Glasses and iSee footage from within the establishment was lost due to a technical error, however numerous inconclusive videos were posted to YouTube by several passersby utilizing vintage iPhones.
On Thursday, the board has to decide which story to believe and what, if anything to do about it.