Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Makr Shakr: World’s first crowd-controlled robotic bar makes debut


Robot bartenders aren’t new, but they tend to be more drink vending machine than cool mixologist. To inject a little panache, researchers at the MIT Senseable City Lab in collaboration with Coca-Cola and Bacardi Rum have developed Makr Shakr – a robot drink-mixing system that made its debut at the Google I/O annual developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday as the world’s first crowd-controlled robotic bar... Continue Reading Makr Shakr: World’s first crowd-controlled robotic bar makes debut

Section: Robotics

Tags: Alcohol, Drinking, Google I/O, MIT, Robots

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