The T-Rot Bartending Robot

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By David Ponce

That’s it, Korea! Go ahead and develop uber robots, with bubbly heads and massive forearms. Hey, it doesn’t matter if you’re planting the seeds for our eventual plunge into slavery… robots are cool!

This one is called the T-Rot (for Thinking Robot!). It is serving as a bartender at the APEC forum currently underway in Busan. It’s able to carry on conversations and fetch drinks. It features special sensors on its hands that allow it to determine just what it is holding, and apply appropriate pressure.

The skin, developed by a team led by Gang Dae-im and Kim Jong-ho from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, has polyamide film and three-axis sensors that can detect vertical pressure and horizontal sliding. It is capable of recognizing the weight of objects with a less than 10 g margin of error when it holds a 100 g object.

That means that when you shake your robo-bartender’s hand, after it’s listened to your stories of sorrow, you will not be rewarded with a trip to the ER.

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7 COMMENTS

  1. T-Rot, tu robot camarero

    Al final tenía que llegar. Tanto tiempo soportando a los clientes pesados contándoles sus penas y aguantándolos con niveles etílicos desorbitados han hecho mella en la ilustre profesión de camarero. Al menos en Corea, donde ya disponen de este T-…

  2. Danger Will Robinson…You’re Drunk!

    Those Koreans are at it again. First, they come out with cool breathalyzer cell phones…now, they’ve got robot bartenders. Meet the T-Rot, a robot with an unfortunate name and some pretty cool skills behind the bar. The skin, developed by…

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