Two out of the four beer selections are made in Oregon!

Now if only you could speed it up a little. Seems like the beer might be kinda warm by the time it gets it to you.

Beer is among the banes of human existence. It made living in Oregon smell terrible. It made living in Oregon boring because people were drunk and stupid. It makes being around cars more dangerous because people drive drunk. Granted, it is all a choice, and really those choices are the bane. For some reason that I cannot fathom, beer has become an acceptable choice. Absolutely disgusting. Cool robot, wish it would bring me a mask to guard from the horrid beer smell.

Those are cool bots but, why are they so slow?

In the next version it would be cool to incorporate the bottle opener into the hand/claw so on facial recognition it pops the top for you

@Ezekiel: Troll much? Ya know… I drink various forms of alcohol, and make it too. I have never had liver failure, never been yellow, never driven drunk, never been injured because of the drink, and rarely have I drank to excess. I recognize there are many folks out there who may have a different experience. The bane is not alcohol… its lack of self control, and people who cant tell the difference between an inanimate object and a person making poor decisions.

Ezekiel: you need a history lesson, the human race survived largely in part to beer, during the middle ages, when water purity couldn’t be tested like today, the beer making process destroyed harmful bacteria and sanitized a liquid which, at the time, had a more significant nutritional value to it.

remember, drinking, living in oregon, these are all choices, let people make their own choices.

as for the article, love it, a friend of mine works in Indiana, but logs on to a remote at willow, I hope he has fun with this, shakes a beer or two then puts it back.

@Ezekiel,

Get your bad self back to Florida or Arizona and take your Carrie Nation hatchet with ya…

-Oregon

I, for one, salute our robot underlings.

Oh, I need to get me one of those robots! :D
It’s even better then the Heineken walk in fridge, LOL. :P

If the robot is THAT large and takes that long to get the beers out of the fridge why not make a ‘mobile fridge’ that comes to you? Off the top of my head I envision either a motor base from a wheelchair or some Harbor Freight drill motors (more likely the wheelchair motor due to weight) with a fridge + UPS and some sort of tracking setup. Line follow would be the easiest, but visual tracking could be implemented with enough time and money. Have it “park” to an outlet for normal fridge use and have it undock from the outlet temporarily (running off the UPS) to deliver your beer/food/etc and return itself back to the outlet/permanent home. Seems like it wouldn’t be TOO hard.

Aztraph: Thank you for defining the human race as Europeans.

Mike syczys:
I’ve been an ardent follower of both Hackaday and Willow Garage for some time now, and I am quite frustrated to see
HaD posting an article that casts a robot (an other wise gender-neutral robot) as a woman due to the fact that it is serving beer. This kind of comment shows the underlying sexism in the technical arts, and frankly the world is messed up enough without people who think that casually misogynistic jokes are funny.

Please bring your standards back up to the level I’ve come to expect from HaD.

@supershwa I would say programming a robot for this, is a help in general for programming robots, it does include a large range of tasks, that need to be perfected to get robots into more general use, so the more people ‘playing’ about in this field, the better.