The robot cocktail-servers of Vienna

In America, the robots vacuum carpets and terrify pets. In Korea, they read books to children at bedtime. In Austria, they serve you drinks. Finally, * someone* gets their priorities right.

Vienna is hosting Roböxotica, a festival of drink-serving automatons hosted by people who obviously think they've spent quite long enough at college:

Until recently, no attempts had been made to publically discuss the role of cocktail robotics as an index for the integration of technological innovations into the human Lebenswelt, or to document the increasing occurrence of radical hedonism in man-machine communication. Roboexotica is an attempt to fill this vacuum. ... A micro mechanical change of paradigm in the age of borderless capital. Alan Turing would doubtless test this out.

Righty-oh! Make mine a Jamesons.

Roböxotica ends Dec. 10 at the Freiraum of Museumsquartier Vienna. Pictured is a cocktail-serving model with the brilliant, but perhaps English-challenged name, "Cock-Bot."

The cocktail robots of Vienna [Reuters]