Simply Robotics

Bartender Robot - 2006

Bartender Robot was created as part of a project by two students : Inon Shoshani and David Nizan and supervised by me. The robot featured a special pouring algorithm in which the bottle was weighted and the contents level was calculated based on the shape of the bottle. This feature allowed the robot to pivot the bottle to the angle of just before splitting and then, by pivoting the bottle by a calculated degree to fill the glass. The filling angle was also calculated from the shape of the bottle algorithm, thus no additional sensors were needed and the robot made the task fast without over-pouring the drink. The location of the glass was calculated simply by a webcam. Here is a short movie presenting the device: