"->forside

The fifth and last cocktail robot Magnus Wurzer had chosed in his Top 5 robots is a serving robot by Mitch Heinrich.

Fairy Juicer (Le Pressoir de la Fée)
"Let me give you a serving robot that did a little mixing. It wasn't awarded for it's mixing capabilities, but it was so much fun to crush and smoosh the fairy, which was inside the machine. It was like a just a cupboard with the glass front and you saw a tiny green light going around in there. What you had to do to get an absinthe drink with a little water was that you had to turn the crankshaft so you had to turn this and slowly the walls would approach the fairy, and when the fairy was pretty much being out of space she started to (make sounds). Something like that".

"So you really saw the suffering but you had to go on and kill the fairy, sqash it and receive your absinthe. So that's a very original idea which is also typical for what people bring. They really don't concentrate mainly on a technical standpoint and don't say "I want it to mix the perfect this and that. But they have crazy ideas and in the end you'll get a cocktail. So I love it".

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[image source: flickr user: Christopher T. Palmer]
[source: Vive Les Robots!]