The future of beer is here: Torque introduces robot bartender

Always wanted a robot to bring you a beer? Head over to Winnipeg's Torque Brewing, where their new "bot-tender" robots willtake your order, rinse out a glass, pour a beer and serve it to you.

Phil Bernadin is one of the owners at Torque Brewing, and he also owns Eascan Automation, a local robotics company.

He says people get quite a kick out of the system.

"A lot of just staring and stricken with awe as to what it can do," he says. "Itdoes the same thing every time, they say which is what it's supposed to do, it's a robot."

Bernadinsays the pair a pouring bot and a serving bot are universal robots, and were programmed by a University of Waterloo student.

Watch the robots take an order, pour and deliver a beer:

Watch robots pour a beer at Torque Brewing

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Watch robots pour a beer at Torque Brewing

"It's just fun," he says.

They've tossed out a few names bot-tender, Servo. "We were going to borrow a little bit of Bender fromFuturamaso we thought we'd call him 'Vendor' and you know there's been a few names kicked around but Vendor seems to be the one that people like," saysTorque Brewing president JohnHeim.

Next up, Heim wonders about adding functions.

"You hold your credit card up and it scans it, it goes and gets you a beer and brings it to you and it sort of logs how many you've had we could build a breathalyzer into it and just sort of shut you down if you've had too much," he said.

"But we wouldn't want to get rid of the personal touch of coming in to a taproom."

So far the robots havenot spilled any beer, but one glass has been broken as part of the robots' learning curve.

"No beer has been wasted or harmed in the implementation of the robot pouring,"Heimsaid.