Mar 5 2009Death A La Mode: A Robotic Ice Cream Server
I just don't get it -- why take the chance? What's wrong with paying some pimply adolescent $6/hour to serve ice cream? You have to look at his ugly face, that's what. Still, I want the record to show that I am anti-robotic ice cream server.
These Kuka industrial robots were programmed by 26 students over 5 weeks to serve ice cream (with toppings!) to attendees at Ohio Northern University's homecoming festivities.
Well, like the saying goes, "I scream, you scream, we all scream for HOLY SHIT THAT ROBOT HAS SPRINKLES -- HIT THE DECK!!!"
Hit the jump for a relatively boring 5-minute video about the servers of death.
Kuka Robots Serve Ice Cream, Very Slowly [botjunkie]
Thanks to Mitch, who requested caramel sauce but got chocolate instead so he tore the robots arm off and parted it out to build a rocketship. Good looking, Mitch.
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Reader Comments
1. blopp - March 5, 2009 2:54 PM
first!
2. Aj - March 5, 2009 2:54 PM
Haha, FIRST BITCHES!
3. chris "sanchez" - March 5, 2009 2:55 PM
EPIC FAIL!
4. Aj - March 5, 2009 2:56 PM
@1
Seriously, go kill yourself you idiot. So immature; being first is nothing big. Loser!
5. blopp - March 5, 2009 2:56 PM
mwahahahaha, i think not ;)
6. gummi bear out - March 5, 2009 3:06 PM
im worn out now i dont even want to post this stupid crap about celeb post spam
7. nick - March 5, 2009 3:07 PM
top ten n!ggas
8. gizmoduck - March 5, 2009 3:09 PM
i thought it was a chocobo at first
would have been sweeter
9. Davo - March 5, 2009 3:13 PM
It DOES look like a chocobo!
WARK WARK WARK!!
PEW PEW PEW!!
10. Pew³ - March 5, 2009 3:33 PM
Oh fùck, here we go again!
I know I am a persuasive figure here, but copying my name and pretending I told people to go to your shìtty website still won't work.
Go eat a dick!
Celebmingle dot com gives your computer a virus, and gives you herpes!
11. yannnn - March 5, 2009 3:50 PM
13rd !
12. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 5, 2009 3:57 PM
#12
I believe the word you were looking for was "pervasive" not "persuasive".
13. Pew³ - March 5, 2009 4:27 PM
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Good times!!
Thanks!
14. nanima - March 5, 2009 4:54 PM
Sorry, but I am calling grammar fail on "is the spoon and cup in place?" And by sorry I mean I'm not sorry at all.
15. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 5, 2009 5:31 PM
A robot won't sing for it's tips like the poor human servers at ColdStone. I Veto robot!
16. Somebody - March 5, 2009 8:40 PM
"Can't you see it people, I mean c'mon..the robots...I mean...their getting us so fat we can't run...it's in the new documentary coming out this summer called Terminator Salvation." "Put down the sprinkles and rocky road...and RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
17. JJtoob - March 6, 2009 3:15 AM
@14 and to PEW: Am i not getting something? You did mean "persuasive" as you would persuade readers to go to that website (if it were really you). Or is someone being sarcastic? I dunno, i'm just bored...
18. Mr.Roboto - June 25, 2009 11:32 AM
Chech out the latest ice cream machine!
http://interactive-robotics.com/