currently at metalab, Vienna - open source von Neumann Universal Constructor ... see also http://shifz.blogspo t.com/2006/09/reprap -open-source-von-neu mann.html
Ernie by Honeybee Robotics -
finally digitized the VHS they sent ROBOEXOTICA a few years back ...
to my knowledge this was the first bartending robot in the strict sense.
(LONG version - including TV clips, which explains the MISLEADING SCREENSHOT of an anim of Honeybee's space-robot)
... http://shifz.blogspo t.com/2006/08/worlds -first- cocktailrobot-from-1 980s.html
monochrom's Taugshow #6 - http://www.monochrom .at/taugshow/taugsho w6.htm ... LED-throwies, Vik Olliver of RepRap on nanotech and 80s Armstrad computers.
(to be broadcast on Vienna TV Okto sometime soon and supposed to be put online as soon as Okto realize their ambitious online-archive-proje ct)
1 battery, 1 screw, 1 wire, 1 magnet (extra magnet saves my finger from holding wire to battery's top) - my recreation of the world's simplest motor, found on supermagnete.de
(see also: http://shifz.blogspo t.com/2006/07/electr omagnetic-fun-for-be ginners.html)
"Robotender Ernie" by Honeybee Robotics
to my knowledge the first bartending robot on earth.
mixing, serving, talking. speech-recognizing, interacting.
see also: http://shifz.blogspo t.com/2006/08/worlds -first-cocktailrobot -from-1980s.html
2003, Fra Ablinger and Magnus Wurzer went to London looking forward to meet "Cynthia" the first commercial Cocktailrobot ... which had by then been put out of service by the new management of "Cynthia's Cyberbar", which didn't want to afford the maintenance.