iLush, Gold Bartender of Robogames

Stuart Ferguson's robot bartender iLush had in fact already won last year's Gold medal at Robogames. Actually Roboexotica has been in contact with Stuart in order to get iLush to roboeXotica Dec 2008. But due to unfavorable circumstances they didn't make it and so the first chance yours truly had to lay eyes on the contraption occured at this year's robotic equivalent to the Olympic games - Robogames 2009 ... where, as already reported,  it promptly won Gold again.

Watch iLush mix several drinks in the video below:

Basic data: mixes four Martini cocktails, which are configurable in size and dryness. Touchpad user interface. Glass magazine holds up to eight cocktail glasses. 

But most importantly - I can attest to that it doesn't just look shiny with it's blinky lights, but it also mixes pretty decent drinks! 

dorkbotSF 7th Anniversary Party

Last week Saturday I saw some crazy ass electric demonstration in Oakland involving the giant Tesla coils pictured above ... a light bulb was powered by electricity transmitted throught the air while sparks flew and didn't fail to mesmerize the watching crowd.

Inside the venue of the dorkbotSF 7 year anniversary party there were several other interesting contraptions being displayed and presented in talks. Alas I didn't get much of the performance involving a 1928 Hogan "medical" electrocution device due to large crowds, which was made up by the who is who of Bay Area robot dorks, occupying the better seats.

V. Vale had a table selling REsearch books; I left a few copies of theRoboexotica book with him (and my no-longer-needed extra battery & charger for the lost Lumix camera)

Roboexotic-US - Wired Gallery

The Wired Gallery of our opening is online, 9 great shots each with a witty paragraph of text. Our press department is happy.

Roboexotic-US preview

We had a couple early birds drop by the venue yesterday night, among them cnet journalist Daniel Terdiman - see his article..

Here's a clip of El Borracho serving his first flaming cocktail this season:


Join us tonight May 10th at 354 5th St. San Francisco to get a glimpse of the strange and wonderful world of cocktail-robotics! Opening 8pm.