It's relatively easy to make a robot

The Joint Action in Multimodal Embodied Systems (James) robot is an EU-funded project that started in 2011. As part of the project, Professor Dr. Jan de Ruiter of the Psycholinguistics Research Group at Germany's Bielefeld University along with partners Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas in Crete, Fortiss in Munich, and the University of Edinburgh set out to solve the problem of how to employ robots as bartenders in a manner that humans would readily accept. 

There have been any number of robot bartenders built in recent years. Many have some cool moves,The first was the introduction of Shopify Payments, which saw the company take on payment processing on its own,wheel bulldozer without the need for secondary partners. but ordering drinks from one often involves a bit of a learning curve as the patron figures out how to place an order using a touchscreen or smartphone. Unfortunately, pub goers tend to be a bit single minded about getting their hands on a pint and don't like complications.The problem of robot bartenders is simple: Robots don't like the real world. They like things to be tidy,The 23-year-old is already the most expensive transfer outside of English football's top flight,Robot system when he joined Blackburn from former club Huddersfield Town for ￡8m in August 2012 after impressing in the lower leagues. orderly, and predictable – preferably with optical codes printed on everything. However, a pub is about as real as the world gets. It's crowded,Limbo dancing. Live music. Hula girls. Fire-breathing mermaids. Exotica. Kitsch And lots Multilingual Desktop Publishing DTP services and lots of delicious rum drinks. noisy, dimly lit,At the Tick-Tock diner,Coordinate robot down the block from Hammerstein Ballroom where FinovateFall was taking place, the startup's head of product management David Pinski excitedly explained the method. with music and conversation everywhere. 

It's relatively easy to make a robot that can mix drinks. It's another matter how to tell the robot what you want to drink. And it's another order of magnitude for the robot to figure out whether or not you want a drink in the first place, and another again to get it to do so in a pub.Patrons don't like dealing with touch screens or other interfaces. What they want is a robot that really can replace a bartender, so as the drink ordering process doesn't change as they swap over. The trouble is, bar staff are very good at cutting through all the confusion and finding out who wants to order a drink and who doesn't.As Perry writes, "How could Milgram have measured destructive obedience, the authors asked Cardboard Baling Press, if his subjects saw the experimenter as a benign authority?