Robo Want Beer -- Robo Get Beer

[Taro Toporific]

Robots on Yahoo! News Photos, AP - Tue Jan 24, 5:25 AM ET
This photo released by The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) of Japan, humanoid robot HRP-2 Promet picks up a can from a fridge before carrying it to a table upon receiving a verbal command by a human operator during a demonstration at AIST in Tsukuba, north of Tokyo...more...

See more about HRP-2 Promet in the FG thread: I, Robot getting closer

[maninjapan]

Can't be that good - still waiting for that damn beer!

[inthebubble]

I will be impressed when a robot can drink as well as Bender on Futurama.

[ichigo partygirl]

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8642

Japanese beer maker Asahi plans to give away 5000 personal bartending bots, each of which can store up to six cans of beer in a refrigerated compartment within its belly. At the push of a button the simple robots will open a can and pour the chilled contents into a glass for a thirsty owner.

To win one of the beer-bots, in a promotion for the company's new low malt beer, contestants must collect 36 tokens found on the specially marked beers. But the competition, starting in February, is only open to those in Japan.

[ichigo partygirl]

Not to be outdone by a Japanese beer company giving away robots which despense beer, a NZ Vodka company is giving away a Russian Bride..........Im sure she is able to do many many more tasks than the robot

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/shot-at-a-bride/2006/02/26/1140888735569.html

"A New Zealand vodka maker is running a "Win a Russian bride" competition with an advertisement showing a blonde woman on her hands and knees scrubbing a floor, a newspaper reported.

The competition offers a return trip to Moscow with spending money to join a "find-a-bride" tour."...

[Greji]

Not to be outdone by a Japanese beer company giving away robots which despense beer, a NZ Vodka company is giving away a Russian Bride..........Im sure she is able to do many many more tasks than the robot

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/shot-at-a-bride/2006/02/26/1140888735569.html

Damn! I suppose it could be worse. You could have got stuck with a Kiwi as a consolation prize.

[Kuang_Grade]

It looks like some cool hunter firm got their hands on a few of those Asahi beer bots and are now selling them for a mere $800 (presumably US dollars) each.

http://www.kilian-nakamura.com/catalog/asahi-beerbot-beerpouring-robot-p-130.html?language=en

[kurohinge1]

See also: Adult Toys - i-Sobot which has a link to some more vision of one in action. They're a little slow for my liking. I wonder if they can be overclocked.

Doumo arigatou, Mr Roboto.

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

Robot programmers with beer and Japanese robot is not a good mix.

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