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Wired has a robot that serves beer

By | August 18, 2009, 8:09pm PDT

Summary: Free beer, and robots. Think about those two concepts for more than a second, and you’re already asking when, where, and how many. Imagine a kegerator that looks like an iPhone. And there is high-quality, San Francisco-brewed beer inside. And the Wired logo is on it. When Scott Beale announced this event, I knew I had to [...]

Free beer, and robots.

Think about those two concepts for more than a second, and you’re already asking when, where, and how many.

Wired Beer Robot

Imagine a kegerator that looks like an iPhone. And there is high-quality, San Francisco-brewed beer inside. And the Wired logo is on it. When Scott Beale announced this event, I knew I had to go and at least take pictures.

The representative from Wired said the robot will soon have live-video streaming abilities, along side a Twitter account that gives updates about how much beer is left in the keg.

Why would you not want to be friends with @beerrobot?

Check out some more photos I took at the event on Flickr.

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Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City.

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Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City. Before moving to NY, Andrew worked at SimpleGeo & Ning in San Francisco. Previously, he was an associate technical producer at CBS Interactive. Andrew studied print & electronic journalism at Virginia Tech, where he created a student-run online news publication called Planet Blacksburg.

In 2006, Andrew interned at ESPN in Bristol, CT, working for the Sports Production team doing Javascript and SQL experiments. Prior to that, he worked at the WSLS-TV NBC 10 in Roanoke, VA, as a web intern. In his freshman year of college, Andrew worked at the local ESPN Radio station answering phone calls and writing scripts for the local afternoon talk show.

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