We’ve seen tons of bartending robots before, but we’re not sure we’ve ever seen a robot that actually drinks with you… Until now anyway.
Designed and built by a South Korean inventor, [Eunchan Park], he built this robot to drink with, quite literally.
The story goes that he tried drinking alone in 2012 because he did not have a girlfriend at the time. He didn’t enjoy drinking alone and promptly stopped. But then recently he tried drinking with two glasses on the table, and cheers himself when drinking. According to him, the alcohol tasted much better that way, which drove him to build Drinky, the Alcohol Drinking Robot.
The robot is extremely well built, capable of toasting glasses (without spilling), giving you a thumbs up, shake its head, and more. The build was supported by the Art Center Nabi, which is an art museum in Seoul. We suspect it might end up on display there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StEXXdhgRPs
As far as barbots go, this one is pretty awesome. But we still get a kick out of this coin-operated shot dispensing barbot…
[via Motherboard]
some suck and some don´t
They say drinking alone is a sign your an alcoholic, goodbye AA, hello South Korean robots!
Don’t worry there are still signs. Like when you smash open your robot friend as if it was a common piggybank to get to it’s delicious delicious insides.
Or just unlatch the jar, but yeah.
Because drinking alone didn’t seem lonely enough…
I suppose you could use it with telepresence. Make a new Internet friend, Skype each other, and every time the robot takes a drink, you take a drink. Shit, I could start an online bar for just that clientele, a load of alcoholics Skyping with a bit of online scenery. BRB, Patent Office, ORIGINAL IDEA DO NOT STEAL.
An online VR game, where a bunch of players sit around a bar. Every time you take a drink, your avatar does too. Bar fights initiate a Mortal Kombat minigame.
BRB, Patent Office…
So now just what do you do with the “consumed” alcohol. Do you…, like …. Drink robot piss :ewww:
Alcohol is a liquid waste product of yeast, so if you’ll drink yeast piss…
Good alcohol is *distilled* yeast piss that’s been stored in moldy barrels. There is no shame…
What about adding something to detect the amount of liquid consumed and then code the little bot up to act more drunk as time goes on.
It got red cheeks in the video!
Now add an electric generator running on booze…”Bit my shiny metal ass !”,
What I can’t believe is that it took 7 comments before we got a Bender joke!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uteifdsFZOw
It needs to burp fire after some random period of time.
Gwangyang-si?
So, if he’s just with me, he’s gettin’ the cheap stuff. But in a crowd, I could easily see him getting people to buy him drinks. He’d have to phrases like, “Top shelf only, please”, “Grey Goose or Stholi Gold are affirmitive”, etc. The extra peripheral would be a shot glass dispenser, so his last drink is my next one. Works up to a point… he can’t mix it up too much!
If you are (perpetually) buying, I am (perpetually) your drinking buddy. All you had to do is ask.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ngaOaIAF4&w=560&h=315%5D
Now make it powered by the alcohol it drinks.
That’s definitely the next must have feature to add to RoboHon!
Power your RoboHon from drinking!!!
I would end up in a fight with the thing because it’s drinking all my booze.
Sure. Drinking. That’s the only thing the robot was made to do.
Would be the perfect mate for a barbot.
wait, that may be how skynet come to be.
I want to see a useless machine built around this and a traditional bar bot… the barbot sets them up and this guy knocks them back… over and over again.