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Cocktail Robotics
Cocktail Robotics is a growing field of entertainment designed to automate making drinks for humans in sometimes humorous and unusual ways. The robot has many names: robot bartender, drinkbot, barbot, robobar, cocktail machine, cocktail robot, robotender.

A handful of these machines, such as MakrShakr, and Monseuir, are commercially available. Most drinkbots, like COSMOBOT and are hobby robotics projects, using Arduino or Raspberry Pi microcontrollers or Microsoft Windows-based personal computers.

Roboexotica is an annual performance art project based in Vienna, Austria that features cocktail robots serving drinks in unusual ways.

The BarBot Festival of Cocktail Robotics brought this unusual merging of engineering and art to San Francisco, California, USA.

Early Drinkbots
There were several demonstration drink machines, sometimes called "robots" during the 1950's and 1960's for exhibitions and product demos.

Drinkbots in Fiction and Literature
TikiBar TV, one of the first successful video podcast series in the early 2000's, the character LaLa builds a drinkbot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FtCwmXnV-U

Drinkbots are a science fiction staple. In various forms they are featured in "Star Trek," (replicators), "The Fifth Element" (Bartender), "Forbidden Planet" (Robby the Robot replicates whisky), and many more.

Drinkbot Events

 * Roboexotica, started in 1999 and based in Vienna, is major showcase of cocktail robotics with humorous slant.
 * Robogames is a world class hobby robotics event that includes Bartending robots as a category.
 * BarBot was a San Francisco event inspired by Roboexotica. It ran from 2010 to 2013.
 * Cocktail Robotics Grand Challenge, sponsored by the DNA Lounge in San Francisco. Teaser Video here.
 * Art Drinkbots

Commercial Drinkbots
Several attempts are being made to commercialize drinkbots for home or business use:
 * SOMABAR
 * MONSIEUR
 * MakrShakr
 * Partyrobotics
 * Hammacher Schlemmer: "The Robot Bartender"
 * Bartesian

Articles

 * SFGATE: "The Auto-Cocktailian"
 * Arduino Blog: "5 Robotic Bartenders to Celebrate Cinco De Mayo"
 * CNET: "Drinking with droids at BarBot 2010"
 * Fast Company: co.create: "Forget Saving The World, This Robot Will Pour You A Drink"
 * Wall Street Journal: "These Robots Serve Up Cocktails, but Can They Tell If You’ve Drunk Too Much?"
 * Wall Street Journal Blog: "Robots Can Mix You a Drink. But Will They Listen to Your Problems?"
 * MAKE Magazine: "Drinking In The Future at Barbot SF 2012"
 * HACKADAY: "Barbot mixes drinks perfectly with web interface."
 * GIZMODO: "A San Francisco Cocktail Party Where the Bartenders Are All Robots"
 * Huffington Post TECH: "BarBot 2010: Bartender Robots Face Off In Cocktail Competition (PHOTOS)"
 * LA Times: "This robot bartender is like a Keurig for idiot-proof cocktails"
 * LA Times: "Introducing Monsieur, a robotic bartender mixing 300 cocktails in your home"
 * YAHOO Travel: "The Robot Bartender Hit On My Wife"
 * The Telegraph UK: "Scientists have created a robot bartender"
 * VICE: "Scientists Say This Robot Bartender Could Be More Efficient Than the Real Thing"

Videos

 * 2016 Data Cocktail
 * 2016 The Inebriator V2 Testing
 * 2015 DNA Lounge Cocktail Robotics Grand Challenge
 * 2014 Drinkmotizer 2 - Cinco de Mayo 2014 and St. Patrick's Day 2014
 * 2014 The RumBot - An Automated Bartender
 * 2014 MakrShakr Youtube Channel
 * 2014 Bionic Bar! Robotic Bartenders Mix Drinks on Quantum of the Seas - Royal Caribbean
 * 2014 Luma Droid barbot
 * 2014 Drinkmotizer -- the DIY drink mixing robot platform with Raspberry Pi and Arduino
 * 2014 DNA Lounge Cocktail Robotics Grand Challenge
 * 2014 The Verge: "I spent a weekend on a cruise ship staffed by robot bartenders"
 * 2013 TESTED.COM: "Meet the Robot Bartenders of BarBot 2013"
 * 2013 Cafe Neu Romance: "Interview with Magnus Wurzer, founder of Roboexotica"
 * 2013 RT Ruptly TV: Germany: Robot bartender serves up the future
 * 2012 The Social Drink Machine
 * 2012 The Inebriator - Arduino Cocktail Machine - Dispensing Voodoo
 * 2011 Robo-Bar
 * 2011 ABB-Roboter beim Bierausschank
 * 2010 COSMOBOT 2.0 Demo
 * 2010 ABC7 News San Francisco "Barbot 2010"
 * 2009 Mr Asahi the Robot Barman
 * 2009 Yaskawa Motoman: MOTOMAN serves beer - RoboBar
 * 2009 Boing Boing video: Roboexotica: robots that serve booze.
 * 1980's "Robotender Ernie" by Honeybee Robotics, World's first Cocktailrobot from the 1980s.

Websites

 * COSMOBOT Drinkbot, serving cocktails to humans since 2009.
 * Welcome to Roboexotica! Festival for Cocktail robotics since 1999
 * Robogames event website
 * Barbots event website
 * Sean Carney, "The Barbot"
 * DNA Lounge: "2014 Cocktail Robotics Grand Challenge"
 * Robot Cafe in Tokyo