A man walks into a bar. He orders a drink. The bartender is a robot. The robot serves the man his drink and asks the man, “What is your IQ?”
The man says, “150.” The robot proceeds to make conversation about global warming, nanotechnology, and quantum physics.
The man is very impressed and decides to test the robot. He finishes his drink and leaves the bar, but goes back in a minute later. He orders another drink and the robot again asks “What is your IQ?”
“About 100.” The robot proceeds to make conversation about sports, supermodels, fast food, and guns.
Impressed, again the man finishes his drink and decides to test the robot one more time. He leaves and comes back again. The robot serves him another drink and asks, “What is your IQ?”
“50”, he answers.
The robot says, “So, did you vote for Trump again?”
Kfar Saba startup takes artificial intelligence to the point of no return.
Cecilia’s not like any bartender you’ve seen before, and its not just because she’s seven feet tall.
She’s a robot.
And thanks to her artificial intelligence, cameras and language processing, Cecilia recommends and mixes drinks and even makes small talk.
In an interview with NoCamels published on Wednesday, Cecilia.ai CEO Elad Kobi and Director of Marketing Nir Cohen Paraira said the original robot was developed simply as a fun addition for events.
“We had really good feedback and we understood that we have something here. People really like it and they also asked ‘How can we get it to our office, because it’s very cool,’” Paraira said.
“So when we got that feedback, we understood that we have something much bigger than events and conferences on our hands.”
That how the Kfar Saba-based Cecilia.ai got started.
Cecilia can take orders by a touch screen menu or by voice, understands 40 languages, scans customers’ ID cards to make sure they’re old enough to order, accepts cashless payments, and even provide analytics on the orders.
She’s also a workhorse, capable of preparing 120 drinks in an hour.
Paraira also told NoCamels that the startup entered a partnership with the Bacardi Center of Excellence at Florida International University. The partnership will make Cecilia part of the curriculum “for enriching the students in the fields of hospitality innovation, alternate solutions, and combining mixology with technology.”
Students at the Miami campus, Paraira explained, will learn to develop cocktail menus, invent recipes and mixes, and implement them in Cecilia until it makes the perfect cocktail. In essence, the students will “teach” Cecilia’s AI to make new drinks.
Kobi stressed to NoCamels that Cecilia will supplement bartenders, not replace them.
“In the future, you’re going to see a lot of robotics and interactive machines that are going to interact with different customers in different places,” he said, from hotels, company offices, universities, VIP lounges and even cruise ships.
“The idea is that it can really help businesses with other bartenders to bring a wider menu. Cecilia can also generate new revenue streams anywhere you can put a bar – like a lounge, where you won’t necessarily want to put a new worker, or in a stadium in addition to other bartenders.”
While exploring Miracle Mile Shops located inside Planet Hollywood we came across a bar which is completely operated by two robots. The one on the right flawlessly made my virgin mojito. Notice all of the alcohol hanging from the ceiling which is extracted by the robots during the drink-making process.
A.B.E. only survivor of the ill-fated freighter "Sam Neil(l)'s Delight," which vanished without a trace 30 years ago during a routine spice run. When the Delight was finally found adrift around a large asteroid, salvagers were shocked to find one occupant still on board, though hideously changed. Unit A.B.E. 71 has had a host of custom enhancements made to its chassis by an unknown engineer, not to mention the hideous cybernetic arm grafted into the very wiring of the hospitality droid. Imperial scientists who studied the unit were able to identify that the arm is genetically tailored limb made from both human and unknown xenos DNA. A.B.E. would have most likely spent the rest of its existence as a test subject, but the mechanical monstrosity escaped from its holding cell during the chaos caused by a suspicious Space Gas explosion at what was otherwise known to be well-run facility. Now, A.B.E. is on the run, his mental state ever developing as his inexplicable Khybe sensitivity percolates within the arteries and wires of this total freakshow.
One robot makes cocktails from 25 bottles hanging upside-down from the ceiling, another carves perfect ice balls in the fraction of the time it takes a human with a knife and an ice pick.
Robo-bartenders are shaking up South Korea’s cafe and bar culture as the country transitions from intensive social distancing to what the government calls “distancing in daily life”.
LOS ANGELES—A new kind of entertainment is opening next month: a large, carnival-like arcade filled with VR headsets, brand-new arcade cabinets, holograms, escape rooms, a robot bartender named Guillermo del Pouro, hidden passages, and more.
The barmech’s face is a screen. Look at him, showing a purple heart! I wanna go to LA just to meet the little guy. The place is called Two Bit Circus.
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