At the moment, robotic bartenders are costly—but some startups are aiming to make them competitive with human mixologists.
Automating alcohol: The Tipsy Robot, a Las Vegas bar, has an employee that cost more than $1 million dollars to hire. Its robot bartender, created by Makr Shakr, can sling up to 120 drinks an hour at $12 to $16 a pop.
But... Prices are plummeting. Makr Shakr has just released a mass-market version of its drink-serving machine that costs $115,000. And next month, New York-based startup Barsys will release a $2,500 commercial version of a microwave-size robot bartender.
The jobs question: The creators of these machines don’t see them as supplanting human barkeeps. “In most of the bars, the bartender is the biggest crowd puller,” CEO and founder of Barsys, Akshet Tewari, told the Wall Street Journal. “With Barsys it’s all about increasing the efficiency of a bar.”
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Automating alcohol: The Tipsy Robot, a Las Vegas bar, has an employee that cost more than $1 million dollars to hire. Its robot bartender, created by Makr Shakr, can sling up to 120 drinks an hour at $12 to $16 a pop.
But... Prices are plummeting. Makr Shakr has just released a mass-market version of its drink-serving machine that costs $115,000. And next month, New York-based startup Barsys will release a $2,500 commercial version of a microwave-size robot bartender.
The jobs question: The creators of these machines don’t see them as supplanting human barkeeps. “In most of the bars, the bartender is the biggest crowd puller,” CEO and founder of Barsys, Akshet Tewari, told the Wall Street Journal. “With Barsys it’s all about increasing the efficiency of a bar.”
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SOURCE:MIT DOWNLOAD
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