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World's first robotic barman could spell last orders for pub staff
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by LotusFlower | July 5, 2008 at 10:38 am
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The days of being ignored by the barman while others are served around you may be over, thanks to a robot called Mr Asahi.
The £100,000 mechanical wonder is the world's first robotic barman. Made in Japan, it took eight engineers 200 man-hours to construct the one ton machine.Mr Asahi can open beer bottles and serve pints in less than two minutes, knocking 13 minutes off the average 15 minute waiting time at the bar. He is currently working at Selfridges in London, serving up shots of Asahi beer to curious customers.
'Hello everybody,' he told the gathering crowd in well-modulated tones.
'It's delightful to be here. Would you like an Asahi beer?'
However, it has taken Mr Asahi alot longer to learn the ropes compared to the average barman, training for six-months before taking on the robot's first official role.
An earlier post highlights this video of Mr Ashahi at work.
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at 10:52 on July 5th, 2008
Please note that this story was already posted here. It's always helpful to do a search before posting a story to avoid duplicates.
Thanks!
at 10:59 on July 5th, 2008
A question, Amy--what does someone do when the site doesn't reveal a prior story? Sometimes people get mad when their story doesn't get flagged or something, and another story was on the front page. To faciliate discussion, I did a search, in the box at the top of the page, for robot barman.
The search engine only returned this story--it did not return the story that you linked to.
Perhaps you'd like to address this in the Newsroom? It does get confusing, when the search engine doesn't work, and when a member can't see that an article has been posted before.
at 11:08 on July 5th, 2008
I did a search for 'robot' and got all the stories listed - hmmm, maybe the search is not working properly then. That's not good.
I agree this is a really annoying problem, so that's why instead of wrenching the story (as we have been instructed to do) I just make a comment to let the author know that the same story has been covered before.
When the story uploading process is changed (which is happening soon I understand) then before the story is posted a list of 'related stories' will appear so that will avoid all this confusion about duplicate stories can be avoided.
Oh for the day! :)
I will check on the search function though and see if it is working properly.
at 11:17 on July 5th, 2008
Funny thing about wrenching instructions--if obeyed, they tend to get negative reactions, even from NP itself. Quandry, huh?
In accordance with your prior instructions in another thread, I tried to move this discussion to the Newsroom and start a discussion thread. But now there doesn't seem to be a way for a member to start a new discussion thread. So I did the best I could do and added a comment to MTippet's piece on NP changes.
As far as searches, given the problems with tags--the plethora of auto-tags, previously discussed by members, for example--it seems that search will be limited. I've previously uploaded photos that I added very precise tags for because I knew I'd want to use them again. A great deal of the time, I couldn't find them in a few days using the tags I added to them!
With the new "related stories" function, will it catch stories submitted within say, 1 to 2 minutes, or less than 10 minutes? That seems to be a sore spot with some members, if a couple of minutes gets another story more attention.
at 11:04 on July 5th, 2008
Hi Amyjudd - thanks for the link to the other story on Mr. Asahi - I'm going to leave mine up because I think it's a different take on it - the first highlighted story going to a video - I'll put a link to it on this stories page too. When I searched 'Robotic Barman' before posting mine it didn't give me any results - maybe a gremlim in the works :-) thanks again
at 11:09 on July 5th, 2008
Yeah, I never meant for you to take yours down. That's fine.
at 11:47 on July 5th, 2008
that search for related stories before posting your own, never works, amy!
at 11:25 on July 5th, 2008
I'd like to Good Stuff flag this, Lotus Flower, if for no other reason than your patience in hosting the ensuing discussion, but I'm not sure if I should or not. Can you accept good intentions? ;}
at 12:37 on July 5th, 2008
I have created a Forum Topic here around the subject.