{"id":2092,"date":"2015-05-18T15:31:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T23:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2016-07-11T13:41:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T21:41:36","slug":"barbots-robots-or-vending-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/barbots-robots-or-vending-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"BarBots: Robots, or Vending Machines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/barbots-robots-or-vending-machines\/\" data-text=\"BarBots: Robots, or Vending Machines%3f\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>I do not regard the advances in robotic bartender technology with the <a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=585\" target=\"_blank\">same skepticism as I view the advances in development of artificial intelligence<\/a>. \u00a0Nor do I see these advances as heralding the coming <a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=886\" target=\"_blank\">Robot Revolution.<\/a> \u00a0Just because, that&#8217;s why. \u00a0Anyway, the current crop of BarBots are really more akin to drink dispensers or vending machines judging from the photo gallery that accompanies this piece at EnGadget:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/05\/12\/bots-and-booze-the-automated-bar-of-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bots and Booze: the Automated Bar of the &#8216;Future&#8217;. \u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The difference today is that the so called robots are less boxy and slicker looking than those of yesteryear.<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230; and women don&#8217;t wear their hair &#8220;up&#8221; so much anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Look, if you&#8217;re going to call it a BarBot then it has to have some characteristics of <em>both<\/em> a robot <em>and<\/em> a bartender. \u00a0Otherwise it&#8217;s just a damn coke machine. \u00a0And if there was going to be a revolution of the coke machines I&#8217;m sure that would have already happened by now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet I do not regard the advances in robotic bartender technology with the same skepticism as I view the advances in development of artificial intelligence. \u00a0Nor do I see these advances as heralding the coming Robot Revolution. \u00a0Just because, that&#8217;s why. \u00a0Anyway, the current crop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}