Fake bartender pours fake drinks with fake ice, in Japan of course
Where else but Japan would they want to build a fake bartender—a robot—that pours fake drinks—non-liquid/non-alcoholic— with fake ice—a bright blue plastic block?
Japanese robot pours fake drinks with fake ice
CNET, J Crave | August 1, 2011 …Tokyo Institute of Technology's Osamu Hasegawa and collaborators are working on a robot that operates based on an algorithm they've termed a self-organizing incremental neural network (SOINN), which is designed for unsupervised learning tasks…In an experiment [video below], when it's told to serve water, it can identify a cup, grasp it and then pour pellets, acting as the liquid, into the cup…more...
Also check out the previous 3Yen reports on robo beerbots:
. . . —Amazing Japanese beer bots (3Yen / 6/29/2009)
. . . —ROBO WANTS KIRIN BEER (3Yen / 1/24/2006)
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August 9th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
How about a geek bartender joke to go with that Japanese robot bartender?
A room temperature superconductor walks into a bar, the bartender says, “We don’t serve any room temperature superconductors in here.” So, the room temperature superconductor leaves without putting up any resistance.