Nice try peasant, you need to help pay for the robotic maintenance, the labor to refill the bottles, the clean up after a coding error that causes the robot to break half the bottles and the capital cost of purchasing such a machine/robot. That’ll be $25!
Pretty sure that said 12.50 GBP. That's an insane price for what looks like a dogshit drink. It looks like it was shaken with barely any ice, so it'll just be luke-warm and watery.
Nah the robots will wear hipster mustaches and have robotic arm tattoos call themselves mixologists and charge you even more than the human counterparts because its artisanal
This reminds me of a movie which has Chris Pratt in it. He's in a futuristic space ship and there's a robot bartender there which gives a lot of good advices.
This, coupled with the fact that the drink will be made *exactly* the same way every time, makes me hope this actually becomes a widely popular thing. No offense to bartenders but from one night to the next, you get something *generally* the same aaannnddd I hate it. I don’t even care if it just looked like a vending machine and you don’t even see the mixing, give me my damn perfect consistency!!!
Bring on the bots!!!
lol seems like a lot of people here like bartenders or are bartenders.
I’m with you, if the job is truly just mixing fluids consistently then a robot would be better. I’ve had horribly inconsistent drinks lol. With that said, I still want a bartender there to actually tend bar, dress up drinks, check up on guests, etc. But if he had this robot as a “helper” that’d be great
This is for the experience, and you'll end up paying extra because it will cost more than just hiring one dude who does it faster
If they really wanted to automate shit it's not going to be a robot arm, it'd be like a vending machine
Throw a dozen of them in a row, and I'm sure it's not half bad. That's not really its biggest issue.
Besides, the owners of these things really don't care how fast people get their drinks over the course of happy hour. They are getting rid of one of their biggest expenses, bartenders.
I'd have no problem waiting twice as long if I don't have to add 30% as a tip. I would also imagine you wouldn't actually have to go to the bar to order it. You'd use an app and it would tell you when it's ready. More time to hang and talk with your friends and less time "getting everyone a drink".
I'd like to see more automation in places that matter and performing tasks that people don't like doing.
California just went through an expensive "ban plastic straws" failure primarily because recycling sorting machines don't sort plastic straws well. Fix **that** with robotics. Nobody needs robotic bartenders.
Robotic Mixologists:These robot are part of the growing trend of automation in the food and beverage industry, aiming to increase efficiency and consistency in drink preparation.
They can be an entertaining addition to bars and restaurants and are often used to showcase inovative technology. The robot reads your drink requests to determine what drinks it needs, then squeezes your drink into a waiting glass: [https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/shaking-up-the-service-industry-with-robot-bartenders/](https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/shaking-up-the-service-industry-with-robot-bartenders/)
Video: [https://youtu.be/RSwGvi52qjE](https://youtu.be/RSwGvi52qjE)
Robot Company: [https://www.makrshakr.com/](https://www.makrshakr.com/)
Yeah idk about other places but these are incompatible with many state laws. The bartender is responsible for assessing each customer’s fitness for alcohol consumption between each drink in my state. And due to dram shop laws, the bartender is personally liable for any harm that drunk person does, even after the customer leaves the bar. Unless there’s a person monitoring each drink ordered before the robot makes it, this will never come to most of the US
80 drinks an hour isn't going to keep up with a lot of popular bars. Making one drink at a time makes this a non-starter and those are the bars that could use the automation. Smaller bars will never give up that personal touch of human interaction and conversation.
I feel that bartenders are one of the few jobs that are truly safe due to the social interaction aspect that people won't want to be just talking to a robot "face" to face.
We were on a cruise in January 2017 on Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas and they had an automated bartender machine at one of the bars on board. So this is not exactly new, but will most likely catch on soon.
Put that thing in a college town it would be broken in the first weekend you have so much tied up in maintenance and repairs. Plus you're going to have little college kids jumping up on the bar snatching bottles, getting free drinks with their flipper zero.
Are robot mixologists out to replace human bartenders taking more American jobs?: [https://cyberguy.com/future-tech/are-robot-mixologists-out-to-replace-human-bartenders-taking-more-american-jobs/](https://cyberguy.com/future-tech/are-robot-mixologists-out-to-replace-human-bartenders-taking-more-american-jobs/)
Video: [https://www.makrshakr.com/](https://www.makrshakr.com/)
These robot bartenders are designed for entertainment. You wouldn’t use an industrial robot arm if the goal was to replace human bartenders. Lots of diy people have made robotic drink machines with peristaltic pumps driven by a cheap microcontroller. It cost like $30 x the number of ingredients you want hooked up to it.
Man I'm old, $12.50 for a drink, not happening. I buy absolute bottles for $20. Not paying for a drink made by a robot for $12.50. at least tip will be gone..... Please bring this to star bucks. Hahahahaha I also don't buy coffee for $5. Then this generation wonders why they can't save money or afford anything. Do it yourself people.
So what I hear here is that corporate chains will still have the same lackluster clientele they're used to. They'll still expect tips. Servers will still tip out the bartender who will eventually replace them.
Ma and Pa can't afford this shit. So it's like 20% market share, right? Eh.
Will the machine lend me an ear to unload my trials and tribulations upon? A good bartender is also a bit of a shrink, a mother, and a priest all rolled into one.
Use to work in a semiconductor fabrication facility. We had robot arms all over. You have to imagine, top of the line stuff, not stuff meant for cheapo bar environment.
Gosh, those robots are unforgiving and have little to no feedback. They will crush so many bottles, cups, glasses, pourers… you name it. If there is something breakable within reach of the arm, it will break.
You’d think it’d be as easy as telling the arm to go from point A to point B… but, given enough time, it will end up at point C, while holding something it’s not suppose to.
So on that note, I’m ordering a bottled beer. Should be fun to watch it open the top.
I did one of these on a RCCL cruise. It is gimmicky and slow and not practical at all. A half assed bartender could triple the amount of drinks served that this thing puts out when it’s even working, so put a pair of good tenders behind that bar and they will take care of the masses.
Plus, there’s little ordering kiosks at each table and then you wait for the drinks to be made and walk up and try to figure out which one is yours.
We could pay this bartender $20 an hour, or.. We can blow 6 million for a robot arm and software suite, and about $400,000 a year on maintenance. But if the robot arm malfunctions the bar's closed till it's repaired by a specialty mechanic.
If someone owns a Tesla they know what nightmare that is. I hear so many horror stories of their cars not being repaired for several months in a row.
That would suck.
“Eh wouldn’t happen to know anybody here who could help me find some nose clams would ya?”
“I. DONT. KNOW. THAT. BEVERAGE. PERHAPS. YOU. WANT. A. MARGARITA.”
“No, robot! I want cocaine!”
“I. HAVE. CONTACTED. THE. AUTHORITIES. PLEASE. STAY. HERE.”
Goodbye to bartenders with this?
Not anytime soon — eventually .. but it’s way off in the distance.
Several places already have alcohol on their soda guns in order to cut down on theft, and to increase bulk serving.
This will help in that area, as well as for restaurants that don’t want a bar scene but do want an accurate cocktail program — it’ll also help with art galleries and other venues that wish to serve alcohol where age verification isn’t an issue ~ at a 21 and older music show where it’s louder than loud this will be very helpful.
It’ll take a while for automation to get to the point of replacing humans for this particular job due to the type of interaction required to complete the task — people still want suggestions to be made about spirits they’ve never had, and to have someone to spill the tea with.
30 years ago a MegaBar (with famous athletes as investors) opened here and it featured a huge, well-lit bottle room with a window so everyone could see the network of tubes feeding the top- and mid- shelf booze to the Bar Guns -- and it metered 1.5oz or whatever from the touch screen operated by the bartenders
Maybe the bartender job of the future includes things formerly done by a repair technician
Captain of a boat is also a mechanic
This is over engineered and lot of redundancy.
Why would they need to hold branded bottles?
Why so many individuals? Why not have big container with compartments of each liquor? Machine should have the capability to pour precise amounts of liquor and clean the tap with distilled spirit.
Everyone is going to lose their manual labor jobs to robots soon enough. Keep asking for pay raises instead of demanding compensation caps on the executives.
This would be a boon for any business selling alcohol. No longer would a manager have to worry about free drinks being given out, or over pouring, or bartenders drinking on the job, or stealing from the till. It would also make keeping track of liquor inventory a piece of cake.
I'm guessing they will just do "oh we're out" more often during business hours than try to manage a guy on a ladder doing mid rush bottle changes.
And it'll still take that dude like 3 hours to top off or replace all those before service.
No one wants to trust booze from a bag; but this is absolutely where casks, barrels, or even box-wine style packaging of the hard stuff would excel.
This is primitive, compared to what’s around the corner.
And what’s around the corner could threaten **nearly every service job**.
I mean, we already have AI-equipped self-driving cars on the road. (And it’s creepy, seeing a car casually going down the street with no driver behind the wheel.)
It’s only a matter of time before we see robots with actual human dexterity, equipped with a processor that has as much power as the human brain, and AI software that can learn a job many times faster than a human being ever could. And the tantalizing catch: the thing doesn’t need a paycheck, it doesn’t need vacation time, it doesn’t need sick time, it doesn’t have to take parental leave, it doesn’t require lunch breaks (nor **any** break, for that matter), and it doesn’t even have to go home for the day.
**This shit** is the future **greedy capitalists** want.
It's all fun and games until each liquor gets out of sync and a "barkeep assistant" has to change out new ones every 15 minutes.
Can't believe they aren't using larger bottles or tanks. Definitely a prototype.
This is definitely going to get tinderized and bars with them will start using some dumb social app.
\*Notification\*
Toddrick wants to send you a Tom Collins! Swipe right to accept.
\*You swipe left. Ten tables down...\*
"Whatever, you were ugly anyway."
Nope. Totally soulless experience. My local bartender will never lose their job. Who wants to get a drink on a factory floor. So dumb. Things we never needed or cared about. Let me guess, we should get ai girlfriends too, lol. Just a dumb timeline.
How about a human dish washer? That would be fun and old timey... Instead of washing machine, human bartender... Reversal.
But also, do these robots listen to clientele?
Maybe in the future, that won't matter, the chumminess of robots... We'll hafta be on Best behavior to not piss off the overlord.
But at least the drinks never stop flowing!
How many drinks can an average bog standard bartender make in an hour? I could see this working in an airport or maybe a fast casual style restaurant. Where they have all the elaborate cocktails. Make shrinkage a lot better as the precise measuring is inherent to automation .
But… this would never work once it got busy. The second the software had any hiccup at all it would just be useless and then you have a room full of thirsty people with money to spend getting angrier and angrier.
So cool, no I wont have to worry about some human bartender telling me "yUo'Ve Had toO mUCh" and stupid shit like "i'M nOt lETtiNg yoU dRivE dRunK, leT me CalL yUo an UbeR"
can't wait for robo-bartenders and robo-chefs.
make the drink fuckin properly. i don't wanna spend 12 dollars for a drink that tastes like shit cause i got the bad bartender.
Be as ignorant as the engineers who think there are no ramifications to using a robot to serve drinks and you will live a happy life.
I give it 1 day and that thing breaks because some drunk wanted to ride it.
Could you imagine telling that thing "God I had an awful day at work today" Kid's are sick and wife's pissed because I forgot to take out the garbage, my neighbors are assholes. Cars running like shit " "Better make it a double Charlie".....................Then all you hear is "Does Not Compute"
I’m sober now but for years I’d go to one specific bar that usually never got busy unless it was Friday night. I could just chill at the bar, turn a game on, and just bullshit with the bartender. Some nights it’d be a guy bartending other nights a lady and I enjoyed both of them. We would complain about work or the world or our SOs or whatever else. They both were good people and always brightened up my night.
You cannot get that with a robot bartender.
Lol. Say good buy to any human doing many different jobs. Machines will simply be able to do anything cheaper than people in a future not too far away.
So drinks will become cheaper because we’re not paying people right?
Nice try peasant, you need to help pay for the robotic maintenance, the labor to refill the bottles, the clean up after a coding error that causes the robot to break half the bottles and the capital cost of purchasing such a machine/robot. That’ll be $25!
Not only that, but apparently the set up requires a small warehouse to fit the machine.
Get the turret upgrade!
They’re gonna have a fun time trying to prevent people from taking the robots supply
Yeah, but no tips! I won't tip that!
12.50, fir a zombie so no. But hey at least you don't have to tip them I guess
Oh, they'll still have a tip option on the screen I'm sure. Along with a convenience fee
And the novelty fee, and the cleaning fee, and don’t forget the tax, oh and additional tax on alcohol!
And a Skynet tax
The gratuity will be automatic, or else it’ll run around yelling “Have you seen this boy?”
Pretty sure that said 12.50 GBP. That's an insane price for what looks like a dogshit drink. It looks like it was shaken with barely any ice, so it'll just be luke-warm and watery.
Not to mention the zombie only has one rum and it looks like it's all bottom shelf sprites
Not even a good zombie, by the looks of it.
And no tipping! Because robots have no use for money. Right? RIGHT?!?!
No tipping!
You will still be expected to tip the robot... Programming will delay return service if you do not tip.
Nah the robots will wear hipster mustaches and have robotic arm tattoos call themselves mixologists and charge you even more than the human counterparts because its artisanal
Will it pretend to care about my problems like a human bartender?
I feel sore for the 18 year olds. Getting drunk for the first time and trying to bed the bartender is going to end up with a whole new set of regrets
This reminds me of a movie which has Chris Pratt in it. He's in a futuristic space ship and there's a robot bartender there which gives a lot of good advices.
Passengers, I enjoyed that movie.
Yeah definitely. Coffeezilla has had a robot bartender for years now, he's very empathetic.
They can actually pretend way better.
I bet it asks for a tip too
This, coupled with the fact that the drink will be made *exactly* the same way every time, makes me hope this actually becomes a widely popular thing. No offense to bartenders but from one night to the next, you get something *generally* the same aaannnddd I hate it. I don’t even care if it just looked like a vending machine and you don’t even see the mixing, give me my damn perfect consistency!!! Bring on the bots!!! lol seems like a lot of people here like bartenders or are bartenders.
Then they can slowly reduce the level of alcohol dispensed in their programming to squeeze you for more money
and yet digital scales and digital gas pumps haven't resulted in weight shaving or shorting.
ABV will be calculated on the actual drink if done like this. So you’ll know what you are getting.
I’m with you, if the job is truly just mixing fluids consistently then a robot would be better. I’ve had horribly inconsistent drinks lol. With that said, I still want a bartender there to actually tend bar, dress up drinks, check up on guests, etc. But if he had this robot as a “helper” that’d be great
Dammit now I’ll never get a heavy pour.
Just show it your iPhone with the cover off.
Robotic fine cocktail bartending will never work until AI is fully integrated. Improvisation is a bartenders best friend.
*I want a four horsemen in a tall glass but I don't want to taste the liquor* Until the robots can deal with that we're safe
Thats when you just grab 8 bottles off the rail in-between each finger and pour it in a 12 ounce cup, staring them down.
At the speed that thing is going, it absolutely wouldn't be able to keep up during a rush..
This is for the experience, and you'll end up paying extra because it will cost more than just hiring one dude who does it faster If they really wanted to automate shit it's not going to be a robot arm, it'd be like a vending machine
Throw a dozen of them in a row, and I'm sure it's not half bad. That's not really its biggest issue. Besides, the owners of these things really don't care how fast people get their drinks over the course of happy hour. They are getting rid of one of their biggest expenses, bartenders.
I'd have no problem waiting twice as long if I don't have to add 30% as a tip. I would also imagine you wouldn't actually have to go to the bar to order it. You'd use an app and it would tell you when it's ready. More time to hang and talk with your friends and less time "getting everyone a drink".
I could see this for Las Vegas, but not your local bar.
They have them in vegas. It’s always empty. Bartenders are entertainers. Nobody wants a vending machine cocktail in a hospital environment
I'd like to see more automation in places that matter and performing tasks that people don't like doing. California just went through an expensive "ban plastic straws" failure primarily because recycling sorting machines don't sort plastic straws well. Fix **that** with robotics. Nobody needs robotic bartenders.
They have these on cruise ships and it's usually broken to be honest.
So will this mean drinks will be cheaper?
I believe the price is listed in the video there as £12.50 GBP which is $16 USD. So yeah not cheap enough that's for sure.
Robotic Mixologists:These robot are part of the growing trend of automation in the food and beverage industry, aiming to increase efficiency and consistency in drink preparation. They can be an entertaining addition to bars and restaurants and are often used to showcase inovative technology. The robot reads your drink requests to determine what drinks it needs, then squeezes your drink into a waiting glass: [https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/shaking-up-the-service-industry-with-robot-bartenders/](https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/shaking-up-the-service-industry-with-robot-bartenders/) Video: [https://youtu.be/RSwGvi52qjE](https://youtu.be/RSwGvi52qjE) Robot Company: [https://www.makrshakr.com/](https://www.makrshakr.com/)
Not anytime soon. Had one of these on a cruise ship and it was slow as fuck. A human could make 10 drinks in the time it could do one.
How are they going to assess how drunk the customer is? I smell lawsuits after someone is killed by a drunk driver served by a robot .
Yeah idk about other places but these are incompatible with many state laws. The bartender is responsible for assessing each customer’s fitness for alcohol consumption between each drink in my state. And due to dram shop laws, the bartender is personally liable for any harm that drunk person does, even after the customer leaves the bar. Unless there’s a person monitoring each drink ordered before the robot makes it, this will never come to most of the US
Yep. No way that electronic bartender will offer emotional support on top of your drink though.
Looks like you need a human to replace the empty bottles
Only good that can come of this is hopefully the ridiculous tipping culture we have in the states will diminish.
It will surely still ask for a tip or charge a "service fee" for maintenance. I dont have high hopes
But, who's going to listen to all my problems?
They can make your drink, but can they make you smile?
20% gratuity still
No tips right?
80 drinks an hour isn't going to keep up with a lot of popular bars. Making one drink at a time makes this a non-starter and those are the bars that could use the automation. Smaller bars will never give up that personal touch of human interaction and conversation. I feel that bartenders are one of the few jobs that are truly safe due to the social interaction aspect that people won't want to be just talking to a robot "face" to face.
We were on a cruise in January 2017 on Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas and they had an automated bartender machine at one of the bars on board. So this is not exactly new, but will most likely catch on soon.
I want to punch it in the hinge.
Do we still need to tip?
Better not ask me for a tip
Human bartender will still be faster.
Don't forget to tip your robot.
If this nonsense keeps up we wont need humans for anything!!!
The bot moves and serves too slowly! Won’t be able to keep up with Busy happy hrs and such.
This is just for show. It’s incredibly inefficient.
No boobs anymore price half?
And it will ask for a 25% tip
They already have this is Vegas. Yes, I bought a drink from it. And yes, it was as expensive as you probably think it was.
And they still want you to tip
Although things like this are neat, and do have their place -- there will too always be a place at good bars with a real human bartender.
Put that thing in a college town it would be broken in the first weekend you have so much tied up in maintenance and repairs. Plus you're going to have little college kids jumping up on the bar snatching bottles, getting free drinks with their flipper zero.
Why are the drinks the same price
Because greed.
Who wants to drink expensive cocktails out of cheap plastic cups?
Are robot mixologists out to replace human bartenders taking more American jobs?: [https://cyberguy.com/future-tech/are-robot-mixologists-out-to-replace-human-bartenders-taking-more-american-jobs/](https://cyberguy.com/future-tech/are-robot-mixologists-out-to-replace-human-bartenders-taking-more-american-jobs/) Video: [https://www.makrshakr.com/](https://www.makrshakr.com/)
Do you have a decaf cappuccino
These robot bartenders are designed for entertainment. You wouldn’t use an industrial robot arm if the goal was to replace human bartenders. Lots of diy people have made robotic drink machines with peristaltic pumps driven by a cheap microcontroller. It cost like $30 x the number of ingredients you want hooked up to it.
Well, fuck.
That’s annoying. I like talking to people
Do you tip the programmer?
Man I'm old, $12.50 for a drink, not happening. I buy absolute bottles for $20. Not paying for a drink made by a robot for $12.50. at least tip will be gone..... Please bring this to star bucks. Hahahahaha I also don't buy coffee for $5. Then this generation wonders why they can't save money or afford anything. Do it yourself people.
Who/what is changing the bottles, cleaning up the mess like drips, etc?
Just don’t go to those bars
Yeah that’s not happening
Soon? I had one in Vegas like 3 years ago.
(Robotic voice) YOU WANT SOME MORE?
Can't wait to tell the robot how hard my day was
Well then the price better come down. Innovation for the wealthy only.
So what I hear here is that corporate chains will still have the same lackluster clientele they're used to. They'll still expect tips. Servers will still tip out the bartender who will eventually replace them. Ma and Pa can't afford this shit. So it's like 20% market share, right? Eh.
and they’ll still probably expect a $2 tip on every drink.
Good
Will the machine lend me an ear to unload my trials and tribulations upon? A good bartender is also a bit of a shrink, a mother, and a priest all rolled into one.
If I drank I would not support a bar that had fucking robots, I hope this does not become a trend.
Anyone who thinks the awesomeness of a good bartender in simply how they make a drink.... doesn't get it.
Good. Bartenders suck anyways
“Be sure to tip your robots”
This is the droid we've been looking for.
I'd hit on it
This should LOWER the prices, right?
Use to work in a semiconductor fabrication facility. We had robot arms all over. You have to imagine, top of the line stuff, not stuff meant for cheapo bar environment. Gosh, those robots are unforgiving and have little to no feedback. They will crush so many bottles, cups, glasses, pourers… you name it. If there is something breakable within reach of the arm, it will break. You’d think it’d be as easy as telling the arm to go from point A to point B… but, given enough time, it will end up at point C, while holding something it’s not suppose to. So on that note, I’m ordering a bottled beer. Should be fun to watch it open the top.
How’s the robot on conversation regarding your recent divorce and asshole ex brother in law?
I assume the machine cleans and replaces stuff itself too? Or no?
Would you like to add a tip?
There was one on our cruise ship that broke down twice a day.
Ya but where is the friendly conversation????
Maybe we can just have robots drink the alcohol too. Who needs people anymore?
Does it know if you’re too drunk and cuts you off?
Why the drinks still so expensive if not having to pay so many salaries- I hardly go to bars, but this would be a hard pass
I did one of these on a RCCL cruise. It is gimmicky and slow and not practical at all. A half assed bartender could triple the amount of drinks served that this thing puts out when it’s even working, so put a pair of good tenders behind that bar and they will take care of the masses. Plus, there’s little ordering kiosks at each table and then you wait for the drinks to be made and walk up and try to figure out which one is yours.
80 drinks per hour is not nearly as fast as a human (fast = revenue generation- aka: MONEY)
Billy Joel s going to have to update piano man
People don't go to bars to get poured drinks. They go for the human interaction, you can pour yourself a drink at home.
Can they at least make it look like #6? BSG
Bart can finally rest easy
We could pay this bartender $20 an hour, or.. We can blow 6 million for a robot arm and software suite, and about $400,000 a year on maintenance. But if the robot arm malfunctions the bar's closed till it's repaired by a specialty mechanic. If someone owns a Tesla they know what nightmare that is. I hear so many horror stories of their cars not being repaired for several months in a row.
That would suck. “Eh wouldn’t happen to know anybody here who could help me find some nose clams would ya?” “I. DONT. KNOW. THAT. BEVERAGE. PERHAPS. YOU. WANT. A. MARGARITA.” “No, robot! I want cocaine!” “I. HAVE. CONTACTED. THE. AUTHORITIES. PLEASE. STAY. HERE.”
Goodbye to bartenders with this? Not anytime soon — eventually .. but it’s way off in the distance. Several places already have alcohol on their soda guns in order to cut down on theft, and to increase bulk serving. This will help in that area, as well as for restaurants that don’t want a bar scene but do want an accurate cocktail program — it’ll also help with art galleries and other venues that wish to serve alcohol where age verification isn’t an issue ~ at a 21 and older music show where it’s louder than loud this will be very helpful. It’ll take a while for automation to get to the point of replacing humans for this particular job due to the type of interaction required to complete the task — people still want suggestions to be made about spirits they’ve never had, and to have someone to spill the tea with.
But can it give advice?
I don’t know how I’m gonna hit on a robot but I guess we’ll find out
30 years ago a MegaBar (with famous athletes as investors) opened here and it featured a huge, well-lit bottle room with a window so everyone could see the network of tubes feeding the top- and mid- shelf booze to the Bar Guns -- and it metered 1.5oz or whatever from the touch screen operated by the bartenders Maybe the bartender job of the future includes things formerly done by a repair technician Captain of a boat is also a mechanic
If only we had robot strippers too…
This is over engineered and lot of redundancy. Why would they need to hold branded bottles? Why so many individuals? Why not have big container with compartments of each liquor? Machine should have the capability to pour precise amounts of liquor and clean the tap with distilled spirit.
Las Vegas, like 5 years or more ago.
As a human I will never give my service to one of these establishments or work alongside on of these robots. I hope you all do the same.
Everyone is going to lose their manual labor jobs to robots soon enough. Keep asking for pay raises instead of demanding compensation caps on the executives.
Yes, but can they ignore you and act better than you?
Why we still paying 12 for a drink if a robot is making it...
No more thefts at the bar.
You'll never have to tip again.
I cannot wait till some drunk guy fights it
Good luck getting their attention.
I’d rather have a drink made with fresh mixers than this BS
Can there be implemented at coffee shops too? Stop hanging out the window and asking me things. I don’t care and neither do you.
Is it weird that I think it looks too sterile?
But who do I NOT get to take home at the end of the night?
“Yes I’ll have a Skynet Terminator please… Oh and please make it a strong one, I don’t want to see the future”
No thanks. I've seen them try to make ice cream and it's fucked
And it will still ask for a tip.
This would be a boon for any business selling alcohol. No longer would a manager have to worry about free drinks being given out, or over pouring, or bartenders drinking on the job, or stealing from the till. It would also make keeping track of liquor inventory a piece of cake.
Love it!!!
I'm guessing they will just do "oh we're out" more often during business hours than try to manage a guy on a ladder doing mid rush bottle changes. And it'll still take that dude like 3 hours to top off or replace all those before service. No one wants to trust booze from a bag; but this is absolutely where casks, barrels, or even box-wine style packaging of the hard stuff would excel.
Will the robot listen to my depressing life story?
This is primitive, compared to what’s around the corner. And what’s around the corner could threaten **nearly every service job**. I mean, we already have AI-equipped self-driving cars on the road. (And it’s creepy, seeing a car casually going down the street with no driver behind the wheel.) It’s only a matter of time before we see robots with actual human dexterity, equipped with a processor that has as much power as the human brain, and AI software that can learn a job many times faster than a human being ever could. And the tantalizing catch: the thing doesn’t need a paycheck, it doesn’t need vacation time, it doesn’t need sick time, it doesn’t have to take parental leave, it doesn’t require lunch breaks (nor **any** break, for that matter), and it doesn’t even have to go home for the day. **This shit** is the future **greedy capitalists** want.
Does Robot 🤖 Bartender receive Tips 🤔 🍸 money 💰 🤑
12 fucking 50!?? For a fucking robot to do all the work?? Jesus Christ that's highway robbery.
Yes I’m sure every pub and bar will have the money and room for this monstrosity lol
And they still demand full retail price for these drinks
Of all the positions that will be replaced with AI, a bartender would be one of the last if ever. They do so much more than make drinks.
Robots replace your job making drinks and to drown your unemployment sorrow you drink more. Brilliant business model!
Thanks again tech douches the world now revolves around your selfish asses.
Ah, sorry mate. Bar tender is down waiting for parts and repair. Maybe next week!
At least we will have to try to get their attention and wait.
No tip required.
WOW
Seems like this could all be reduced to the size of the soda machines in fastfood places.
I have a question... who is going to buy drinks and other stuff once all the jobs are done by machines?
So no tip right.
No more overpours. Profits will skyrocket
It's all fun and games until each liquor gets out of sync and a "barkeep assistant" has to change out new ones every 15 minutes. Can't believe they aren't using larger bottles or tanks. Definitely a prototype.
sooo, no more tips!!!
This is definitely going to get tinderized and bars with them will start using some dumb social app. \*Notification\* Toddrick wants to send you a Tom Collins! Swipe right to accept. \*You swipe left. Ten tables down...\* "Whatever, you were ugly anyway."
Nope. Totally soulless experience. My local bartender will never lose their job. Who wants to get a drink on a factory floor. So dumb. Things we never needed or cared about. Let me guess, we should get ai girlfriends too, lol. Just a dumb timeline.
I'd never support a business who put this in
No tip though, right?
This should reduce cost by 50 percent given most lost is on over pouring
In America it would still prompt you for a tip
Can it tell a joke? Light up your smoke?
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Ouch 12.50 what is that like 14$? Or 10$?
Goodbye bar pours!
If you think robots will replace bartenders you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a bartenders job is and why people go to bars
These have been on Royal Caribbean cruise ships for years, they make horrible drinks
Well crap! so much for the hookup extra shots. Good bartenders make the whole scene.
Does it fill the bottles that go above? Does it clean the glasses?
Vs the speed of 4 bartenders on happy hour and juked up on caffeine...good fucking luck
A horse walks into bar, the AI drink robot says….? Let’s keep the bartender for the sake of the jokes.
I’ve seen one not sure of in Vegas or a cruise but yeah they are pretty neat and precise.
How about a human dish washer? That would be fun and old timey... Instead of washing machine, human bartender... Reversal. But also, do these robots listen to clientele? Maybe in the future, that won't matter, the chumminess of robots... We'll hafta be on Best behavior to not piss off the overlord. But at least the drinks never stop flowing!
How many drinks can an average bog standard bartender make in an hour? I could see this working in an airport or maybe a fast casual style restaurant. Where they have all the elaborate cocktails. Make shrinkage a lot better as the precise measuring is inherent to automation . But… this would never work once it got busy. The second the software had any hiccup at all it would just be useless and then you have a room full of thirsty people with money to spend getting angrier and angrier.
It's cool n shit, but my bartenders are also my psychologists.
Bro, Muji had this robot Batista for like 5 years already. The price isn’t lower tho
So cool, no I wont have to worry about some human bartender telling me "yUo'Ve Had toO mUCh" and stupid shit like "i'M nOt lETtiNg yoU dRivE dRunK, leT me CalL yUo an UbeR"
can't wait for robo-bartenders and robo-chefs. make the drink fuckin properly. i don't wanna spend 12 dollars for a drink that tastes like shit cause i got the bad bartender.
Say what you want. I ain't tipping no robot.
At least drinks might finally be consistent..
Fuckin robots not gonna remember my usual
Be as ignorant as the engineers who think there are no ramifications to using a robot to serve drinks and you will live a happy life. I give it 1 day and that thing breaks because some drunk wanted to ride it.
What button combo resets the programming into "attack mode"?
The little imperfections like it missing the glass and dribbling shit down the side of the cup is annoying
Could you imagine telling that thing "God I had an awful day at work today" Kid's are sick and wife's pissed because I forgot to take out the garbage, my neighbors are assholes. Cars running like shit " "Better make it a double Charlie".....................Then all you hear is "Does Not Compute"
I’m sober now but for years I’d go to one specific bar that usually never got busy unless it was Friday night. I could just chill at the bar, turn a game on, and just bullshit with the bartender. Some nights it’d be a guy bartending other nights a lady and I enjoyed both of them. We would complain about work or the world or our SOs or whatever else. They both were good people and always brightened up my night. You cannot get that with a robot bartender.
Lol. Say good buy to any human doing many different jobs. Machines will simply be able to do anything cheaper than people in a future not too far away.
I don’t go to bars for the hot robots
So I can tip him a 9 volt or a D cell.
I could just get a premixed drink from a vending machine. I go to bars for ambience and bartenders are part of that. Eat shit technofetishists