In Honor of Autumn. . .
November 15th, 2006 by SB. . .and the new crop of Beaujolais Nouveau (it’s almost the third Thursday in November kids!), we have this little tidbit from Yahoo News:
In Japan Even Robots Await Taste Of New Beaujolais
We here at the Suicide Bunker really enjoy Beaujolais Noveau with the traditional San Francisco Thanksgiving Crab and Turkey Assimilation Feast (Crab Season! w00t!), and thusly are envious of the Japanese, who, because of their time zone, get first crack at each year’s crop of BN.
Yes, this has very little to do with robots EXCEPT that the article above features the Robot Sommelier who has been making the round of blog and news sites as of late, and whom we have regrettably, failed to cover.
We will be taking our beating with our tea.
[Photo Courtesy Robot Gossip, who should drop us a line because we want to be its friend.]
October 7th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
[...] The robot is PaPeRo, a cute little dude we have mentioned before. Papero automatically makes your driving experience better just through the sheer volume of Cutrinos* he emits. The three-seated electric car has a cabin that can rotate all the way around, eliminating the need for backing up. As for Papero, he keeps tabs on you, saying things like “You look tired. There’s a coffee shop 500 meters ahead on the left” and “You’re so wasted, I can’t believe you’re driving drunk again.” [...]