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Last updated on August 9th, 2017 at 04:26 am
There are scientific advances, and then there are scientific advances:
Japanese beer maker Asahi plans to give away 5000 personal bartending bots, each of which can store up to six cans of beer in a refrigerated compartment within its belly. At the push of a button the simple robots will open a can and pour the chilled contents into a glass for a thirsty owner.
To win one of the beer-bots, in a promotion for the company’s new low malt beer, contestants must collect 36 tokens found on the specially marked beers.
Readers (reader?) in Japan: you must acquire this technology.
- Geez, what’s a wife or girlfriend for, anyway?Posted by Abu Qa’Qa on 2006 01 29 at 09:51 AM • permalink
- That brewer of watery beer Asahi removes even more flavour from their tipples by producing a low malt beer? How much lower can they go? Yuk. And I’d need to drink 36 cans of the stuff.
Think I’ll open my beers the conventional way.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 01 29 at 09:52 AM • permalink
- My favorite part is when it says, “Come with me if you want to drink.”Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 01 29 at 10:42 AM • permalink
- Anyone remember Henry Kuttner’s “The Proud Robot”?
At the moment he was nursing a hangover. A disjointed, lanky, vaguely boneless man with a lock of dark hair falling untidily over his forehead, he lay on the couch in the lab and manipulated his mechanical liquor bar. A very dry martini drizzled slowly from the spigot into his receptive mouth.
He was trying to remember something, but not trying too hard. It had to do with the robot, of course. Well, it didn’t matter.
“Hey, Joe,” Gallegher said.
The robot stood proudly before the mirror and examined its innards. Its hull was transparent, and wheels were going around at a great rate inside.
“When you call me that,” Joe remarked, “whisper. And get that cat out of here.”
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 01 29 at 11:37 AM • permalink
- And on second thought, maybe they should put a 24 hour time limit on collecting all 36 tokens. Just to make it a bit of a challenge. Of course, the Japanese are notoriously poor drinkers, turning beet-red and falling down before the evening is fairly well going.
- Hey, if you have a hot wife, sister, daughter or girlfriend, Great Pervert Crab will come by and open your beer cans for you…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 29 at 04:31 PM • permalink
- Eh, I think a robot vacuum cleaner’s more practical. After all, do you spend more time vacuuming or going to and from the fridge for cold beer?
Uhm, never mind.
Posted by John Nowak on 2006 01 29 at 07:14 PM • permalink
- At least the Japanese managed to resist the culturally ingrained urge to incorporate a karaoke machine into the robot.
Shit – now some white coated lab nerds in Kyoto are smacking themselves in the foreheads and saying “Yesss! We need karaoke!”
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 01 29 at 08:14 PM • permalink
- Maybe that hovering thing (/ee/index.php/weblog/nation_of_hoverists/) wasn’t a car but a beer-bot?
- I saw a security robot in a shopping centre the other day. Frankly it didn’t look like it could put up much of a fight. Presumably it’s role is to call for back up while absorbing blows.Posted by Just passing by on 2006 01 29 at 11:46 PM • permalink
- Uhh, Tim, these are prototype Daleks. This is bad. Real bad. Destruction of humanity and Time Lords bad.
You do Dr. Who, don’t you?
http://williamyoung.blogspot.com/2006/01/we-built-them-then-they-rebelled.html
(Tried to insert the url as a hyperlink, but it didn’t take, it did this. Sorry)
Posted by William Young on 2006 01 30 at 12:15 AM • permalink
- For drinkers who need more, Mike Wakerly has invented the kegbot, which is described in Popular Science. (Mike is my stepson-to-be.)Posted by Joanne Jacobs on 2006 01 30 at 03:42 AM • permalink
- “All your beer is belong to us!”
“Someone set us up the beer!”
Yeah, this all makes sense. If you’re Japanese.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 01 30 at 06:18 AM • permalink
- Zang! Now I know how John Henry felt when he first saw that steam drill. Lawd lawd!
(Stoop Davy was a beer can openin’ man. Lawd lawd!)
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 01 30 at 01:39 PM • permalink
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