Hi Drinks Tube, Mike here with a very very special video.
Now you know I love the coffee it's no secret but what has been a secret up until this point
big revelation, I'm a massive geek covered in nerd sauce, I love tech, I love gadgets, I love it all
and I've got a very important question to ask. Are robots taking over the world?
Here at Drinks Tube we take it very seriously, we want to inspire new barmen as well as teaching old ones new tricks perhaps.
But what you may not have considered is that one day we might all be replaced by machines.
So come with me as I take you on a journey of discovery to introduce you to 2 very very different types
of robotic bartender.
So first we are going to start in the home and I am lucky enough to have Dylan here
the founder, the creator of Somabar to tell us all about how we can get a robotic drinks machine into our own house.
Thank you Mike I appreciate that, nice to meet you as well, thanks for having me.
This is Somabar, this is a robotic bartender, makes over 300 different cocktails, it is wifi connected.
The great thing about this is that it makes them from scratch, mixes them all within the machine.
It dispenses a perfectly mixed cocktail every single time in seconds.
Right so let me get this right, you're telling me that you have got a coffee pod machine, but instead of coffee
it's making cocktails?
Exactly, so you have your single serve coffee in the morning and you have your cocktails at night when you get home.
Right okay, I need to know more about this.
So these are our Soma-pods and we have 6 of them in total.
We have 3 on this side and 3 on that side and then from there you make a combination of drinks.
So for instance we have ginger beer here, lime juice and we're going to put vodka in there.
All the Soma-pods are totally refillable so very simply I just take my ingredients from the bottle
and then take the pod, plug it into the machine, easy does it.
Now I can make a Moscow mule, do you like those Mike? I heard that-yea?
Okay okay, so if I manage to find a glass and some ice...
Yea do you have a glass of ice anywhere?
Well it just so happens..
Oh look at that that's perfect, great.
I'll stick that in the front here right under the old nozzle.
Then all I do is just press the button, pour cocktail and what it's doing now it's taking 120ml of ginger beer.
5ml of lime juice and 30ml of vodka.
Taking all out of the pods, mixing in with the machine and dispensing it all in a matter of seconds.
How about this, right now-
And that is finished right there.
Already?
Would you like to try that? Moscow mule.
Would I!
So excited, my first robotic drink here it goes, I'm going in...
Mmm there it is the lip smack, the guarantee of a wonderful Moscow mule
Oh the limes working with the ginger beer, fantastic, lovely.
I'm glad you like it, also if you want to customise any cocktails you can do that and tweak any of the recipe to make your own.
Or you can just make your own cocktail from scratch, so someone across the world in another country
that has their own Somabar, they can upload your cocktail and make it right in their Somabar at home.
That's it, take my money already!
Thank you very much.
Where on earth do I get this? Where can I get it?!
Well we've crowd funded already and we're manufacturing so just go to the link that's in the description and you can get your own Somabar.
I'm gonna do that, I'm going to do that right now but that is the robot in our homes
let's go and see what the robots are up to in the bars...
Over my shoulder here is a professional level robotic bartender, this one's called the bionic bar
and it's made by a company called Makr Shakr.
Now there aren't that many of these on the planet and this in particular one happens to reside on a gigantic cruise ship.
It's called the anthem of the seas.
So how does one go about getting these bionic barmen to do your bidding, very very easy.
You either stick an app on your personal device or you use the tablet very much like this on here.
Now let's have a look got a load of classics on this menu , lets go for the old vodka Martini.
Stick it in the cart, so you press order, sends a message to the arm and away it goes to make your favourite drink.
That easy.
Or you can even do one of your own design, I fancy something a little bit tropical.
Let's get a nice bit of lime in there, a little bit of sugar, not too much there we go.
Let's get that muddled up, let's get these arms working, let's get them building up their biceps, let's get them muddling.
What is a cocktail of course without ice...
Now let's add some rum, now a little bit of pineapple.
Do you know what let's make sure that's up to the top, wonderful.
Right it looks like all our ingredients are in, let's get this thing shaking.
I even get to name it.
And off it goes, so that's it, it's putting the lime in.
Here comes the muddle, it's muddle time, look how gentle these robot arms can be.
Ice time, here it goes listen.
It's like winning the slot machines in Vegas.
In go the spirits, a very important part of course.
In goes the juice, pineapple time, it's gonna shake it baby.
And then gently pours.
So now it's all done, just time for me and my magic wristband to bring my drink to me.
Summon my drink.
I think the future has just arrived. Cheers!
Nailed it!
So there we go guys, 2 examples of a robotic bar-tending future.
But question is, are they going to replace us? I don't think so.
Not any time soon anyway but they're still absolutely wonderful.
But if you want to see some cocktails being made by real humans, click the old link up there, I know you will love them.
Secondly subscribe to Drinks Tube, you've heard it all before.
I am going to take my robotic-ally made drink and disappear within the bowels of this beautiful ship.
I will see you next time.