Dr. Wetbrain lately read an article that stated that the honourable employment of human bartenders will eventually be a thing of the past thanks to robotics.
“What, human bartenders will be history!” The doctor thought. “I would dearly miss the bartender pouring me the perfect cocktail that I like with a human touch and smile. You can tell this drink pouring human your problems with a kind reply in return. They would tell you a joke and light up your smoke. Oh, sure the robotic bartender can produce 200 drinks in an hour. I just want one drink with a friendly chat.”
Now this friendly bartender is being replaced by plastic hydraulic arms, perhaps a monitor and Alexa’s voice. The bionic bartender is so undesirable.
Of coarse Dr. Wetbrain had to delve into this phenomenon. Drinking research is his favorite thing to do. So here are eight different robotic bartenders.
Makr Skakr is the number one maker of the robotic bartenders and has a Bionic Bar named ‘Toni’ onboard 9 vessels of the Royal Caribbean Cruises. This robot has the reputation of 3.4 million cocktails served, 120 drinks per hour with 160 different spirits.
Brought into the world in 2014 and you can buy one for only 99000 euros (99600 us).
Barney – the Swiss Robot Bartender
Created by Baronics this robotic bartender can mix you dozens of cocktails and serve you beer. You make your order with your mobile phone. Sanitizes its own plastic arms. Yours for only $130000 us.
Cecilia the interactive robot bartender, made in Israel is designed like an arcade game with a digital screen where she cleans her virtual counter and tells classic jokes. Say your drink order and it’s made.
This high-tech bartender greets each guest over and over again with facial recognition and voice memory technology built in. Robot Bartender will take your order, mix and serve a drink in 90 seconds. You can rent this robotic bartender for any event such as a wedding, bar or restraint opening.
Researchers at University of Naples Federico, Italy, designed a robotic bartender to have personalized interactions with you. Has 2 arms to pour drinks with a virtual screen that can make different facial expressions. Has microphone, speaker and camera to pick up customer’s body language and speaking. All for answering correctly back to the customer. Hopefully.
Very cool looking robotic bartender with style in its ability to mix drinks. Mobile and touch screen ordering. Serves cocktails from a recipe catalogue of 2000, takes payments, asks for ID and capable of conversation (probably Alexa).
Produced by Richtech Robotics in Las Vegas is the bionic bartender named Adam. Has fully functional arms for mixing, using cocktail shakers and beer taps. Adam also has a sensor camera with a speaker to interact with the customers. Can rent one for any private event.
This drink pouring robot is basically a box with a lovely touch screen to see and order your drink. The screen will show you nice pictures of the drinks you choose from a catalogue of 300 different cocktails in 12 theme packages. Even have a “surprise me” button for an order.
This robotic bartender took 6 years to make and is on most of the MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Co.) cruises. Not the Royal Caribbean Cruises, just saying. The ship’s bartender is a 3-D hologram with a 12-seat counter around it and speaks 8 languages. Very smart looking.
“All these robotic bartenders are quite impressive and fanciful. But the personal touch of a human is not there. I will miss getting served with a one and one interaction with someone. So, comforting. And do we have to tip these robots?!” Dr. Wetbrain concluded.
