tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-223169602009-11-29T17:30:14.515-08:00<a href="http://shifz.org/shifz.htm">SHIFZ</a> is the syntharturalist art association, founded and based in Vienna.magnusnoreply@blogger.comBlogger339125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-75567890780226595712009-11-29T17:16:00.000-08:002009-11-29T17:30:14.555-08:00

You are questioning the rationale behind virtual cocktails made by virtual robots? Well once upon a time people thought making real robots mix drinks was crazy. Hello?!In any case we are showing our appreciation for cocktail robots in their virtual incarnation by awarding the first Virtual Cocktail Robot Award this year in an inworld ceremony in Second Life (TM), that will be part of the ACRA

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-44846703381904844092009-11-27T13:34:00.000-08:002009-11-27T13:54:27.965-08:00

Our little workshop has produced a robot that will offer the choice of a vegan (!) version of White Russian; the artist-in-residence Americans are tinkering away in their laboratories; Bar2D2 has arrived in 2 neat crates ...Roboexotica is near! Opening Dec 3rd 7pm.This year at a new location:"Drinkomat", Missindorferstr. 21/ Stiege 7 / 2. Stock, 1140 Vienna(http://www.roboexotica.org/?location)..

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-74762238308218809492009-11-08T03:02:00.000-08:002009-11-08T03:47:41.056-08:00

Roboexotica imminent! All cocktail roboticists on deck, soldering irons plugged.We invite you to join us at the 11th Roboexotica in history from December 3-6!While we are still trembling about getting one of the most interesting robots (Bar2D2) from the US over here (cross your fingers that there is a reasonable shipper somewhere), the preparations in Vienna are beginning.This year a new location

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-50016605180644546352009-10-12T18:10:00.000-07:002009-10-13T04:21:36.893-07:00

Our russian friends of Cyland Media Art Lab have been developing a gallery inside Second Life (R) which is due to be opened this sunday.Cyland Media Art Lab, an artistic laboratory based in St. Petersburg and New York, arrived in SL! As it opened its doors quietly in summer we now want to point out that there will be an opening-event on Oct. 18th, 10 am SLT!["Every snail is an artist." - video

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-9790074500190208862009-10-09T11:39:00.000-07:002009-10-09T13:38:01.123-07:00

Some of the world's most renowned cocktail robot builders are going to teach up to 15 participants how to make a cost effective cocktail mixing robot from Nov 9-14 in the 1st Vienna Cocktail Robot Workshop.With Chris Veigl and Franz Ablinger two seasoned Roboexoticans are willing to share their experiences. My role in this effort is clear: Providing the know-nothing perspective of someone who can

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-37375445744208302902009-08-19T12:05:00.000-07:002009-08-19T16:32:17.458-07:00

(photo: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid)Good old Chassis has got competition in the free-beer robotics class. The tweeting @beerrobot set free by Wired.com has debuted in San Francisco yesterday night at a local brewery:@beerrobot: I'm here @21stamendment. Come see me! http://yfrog.com/5dc8ikj about 19 hours ago from Tweetie@beerrobot: I have so many new friends! http://yfrog.com/3qmrxj about 18

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-8768037530129045132009-07-01T08:20:00.000-07:002009-07-01T08:34:41.145-07:00

NEW!If you can't wait for the next festival to purchase one of the hand-printed-with-love Tees from motmot Design, or are stuck on some far away continent like America ...you now can still have Roboexotica Merchandize:http://www.cafepress.com/roboexoticusFor now all in black with one or two greyish articles.Different types of short sleeve shirts (Organic, Maternity, Kids, Toddler), long-sleeves,

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-57538548557791012002009-06-30T07:26:00.000-07:002009-06-30T08:05:02.172-07:00

We knew that theoretically RepRap would be able to print with chcocolate. But we are pleasantly surprised that the good people of EvilMadScientist Labs have invented a technology to manufacture pieces from sugar by caramelizing layer by layer.Watch the process in the video below:Now I can't stop visualizing cocktails in tiny edible caramel glasses.

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-86084496600745756892009-06-29T11:27:00.000-07:002009-06-29T11:39:08.833-07:00

Appeal for Money!As bartending robots become more efficient every year in developments around the globe, it becomes more and more important to uphold the values that make a true “Cocktail Robot”. An abstract concept that has been approached and exemplified for the last decade by a transatlantic mix of innovative and at the same time sensual minds from many walks of life, including but not limited

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-8025216741420388852009-06-28T11:10:00.000-07:002009-06-28T13:46:23.083-07:00

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 -

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-31453961590337096002009-06-25T04:01:00.000-07:002009-06-28T11:09:16.782-07:00

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

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-10515994421978173492009-06-14T15:44:00.000-07:002009-06-14T15:53:46.202-07:00

The bartenting competition's winners have just been awarded their medals. iLush (to left in the pic above) came out on top, followed by Fairy Juicer and Cosmobot. Stuart Ferguson's creation had already won Gold last year and winning against such tough competition can apparently be perhaps be attributed to the fact that it was the only bot this year that was able to serve more than one specific

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-36180440885584212312009-06-14T15:02:00.001-07:002009-06-14T15:12:21.743-07:00

The hordes of combots have been weeded out as the fights get fiercer in the arena. The judging of the artbots has been completed. The humans are running on empty batteries. Cocktails are being prepared and served by robots. Candyfab is printing 3D objects from sugar.It is the third and final day of the world's largest robot competition in San Francisco. I am missing my camera right now so I

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-29492211653203258992009-06-08T13:23:00.000-07:002009-06-08T13:30:17.709-07:00

This promises to be a fun new category among the over 60 competitions at Robogames 2009 - Humanoid Mechwarriors battling each other with BB gun ammunition and other weapons.Below are two videos showing preparations of a Robonova for combat in the Mechwar arena. The first one shows how motions are captured to be programmed into the remote. The second shows target testing with live

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-90852382093715328202009-06-08T12:54:00.000-07:002009-06-08T13:03:22.485-07:00

Greg, the Robogames intern has come up with a marshmellow roasting robot, which he showed off in the Mills Valley kitchen of Robogames organizers Simone Davalos and David Calkins.Others would add now "Don't try this at home." or something like it. But I just can't get myself to do that. On the contrary, let me urge you to reproduce this experiment! 

magnusnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-72144904290242547762009-05-23T11:29:00.001-07:002009-05-23T11:31:22.858-07:00

When I read the announcement a few days ago on Suicide Bots that Josh Ellingson, the artist that had designed the Robogames 2008 poster, would have his first exhibit in SL at the Museum of Robots, I got all excited because the art on the poster was impressive. And indeed Josh - or Grover Zelin in SL - did deliver.Highly recommended!Photos on my Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shifzr/tags/

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-63302462449387465442009-05-14T08:40:00.000-07:002009-05-14T09:01:01.517-07:00

Photos and video clips from Roboexotica 2008 in Vienna, the 10th annual festival for cocktail robotics. Covering mostly the exhibit in (and in front of) Museumsquartier, it also includes scenes from Chris Janka's live performance "spark guitar", Hannes Krebs & Marco Eneidi's freejazz gig at VEKKS as well as a passage of reading by Rainer Tramin.

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-76094315344391061052009-05-13T13:01:00.000-07:002009-05-13T13:10:18.705-07:00

The 1980s robot HERo-1, which we had always assumed had cocktail-robotic potential actually proves to have performed such duties assigned to him by his creator, youtube user wendylouwho:"HERO the Robot, built in 1983 by the author, was programmable and tended bar at parties, just like R2-D2 in Star Wars! I did this for the humor when I was young & crazy (I no longer drink). Mostly, I was

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-78342827023177215372009-05-05T17:27:00.000-07:002009-05-06T10:25:33.808-07:00

Mister Robotics declares:"... it's robot season! As robot season gets bigger andbetter in our sixth big year, here's a whole slew of robot excitement toget you pumped for this year's RoboGames (just over a month away!)Three Extra special pre-RoboGames events to get you ready - pick one or allthree!"Sat, May 9th - Laughing Squid's Super Secret Robot PartySat, May 16th - Combat Preview and Beer

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-78056917374026484832009-03-08T09:03:00.000-07:002009-03-08T09:09:03.956-07:00

This cocktail-robot was presented at Roboexotica 2008 by Mitch Heinrich and won the Annual Cocktail Robot Award in the serving category ... to get an absinth you have to squoosh "the green fairy".

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-73299476082772540432009-03-07T08:47:00.000-08:002009-03-07T10:05:32.381-08:00

Help Austrian Cocktailrobots travel to the US and provide Californians with a cerebral stimulus package in spring 2009! Donate now with paypal or CC.Austrians have a 10 year tradition of building cocktail-mixing and serving robots, like this one, or that.And robots with other achievements in the sector of modern cocktail-culture, like this one, or that.We (the people doing the annual

magnusnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-59240328267810414642009-02-21T06:02:00.000-08:002009-03-20T06:38:03.700-07:00

Oh, Eddie Codel's video report of roboeXotica 2008 is turning up! (via boingboing)

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-90370461633977145172009-02-15T07:51:00.000-08:002009-02-15T08:22:03.268-08:00

(or at least the part going after youtube uploads)I am using fould language on this blog for the first time (as far as I recall) to comment on the ongoing disabling of youtube videos on behalf of retarded, anally retentive, copyright-abusing music companies.A) It has been pointed out by far more competent people than me that it does not hurt sales to have fan-uploaded music clips on youtube, so I

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-45112713520435301962009-01-18T09:02:00.000-08:002009-01-18T09:34:22.889-08:00

anybots presented their telepresence robot prototype QA at CES, which is quite humanoidly shaped, except navigating smoothly on Segway-type lower extremeties (and lacking arms).On their web-page anybots present two more robots in development which arose my interest -Dexter, a bi-ped with the ability to jump and run.And Monty, a potential cocktial-robot, which "has one fully articulated hand (

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-26377913705580631572008-12-09T08:58:00.000-08:002008-12-13T08:06:29.100-08:00

The tenth Annual Cocktail Robot Awards have been handed to these recipients:SERVINGSloth (Kal Spelletich) and Fairy Juicer (Mitch Heinrich, David Fine)MIXINGK&K Kavalier Klavier and Construction Wanker (both FH Joanneum)CONVERSATIONChassis (Al Honig, Jon Foote)SMOKING CULTUREtemporarily suspended - no according entries ... shame on you humankind!OTHER ACHIEVEMENTSreprap shotbot (Bre Pettis,

magnusnoreply@blogger.com0