currently at metalab, Vienna - open source von Neumann Universal Constructor ... see also http://shifz.blogspo t.com/2006/09/reprap -open-source-von-neu mann.html
Ernie by Honeybee Robotics -
finally digitized the VHS they sent ROBOEXOTICA a few years back ...
to my knowledge this was the first bartending robot in the strict sense.
(LONG version - including TV clips, which explains the MISLEADING SCREENSHOT of an anim of Honeybee's space-robot)
... http://shifz.blogspo t.com/2006/08/worlds -first- cocktailrobot-from-1 980s.html
1 battery, 1 screw, 1 wire, 1 magnet (extra magnet saves my finger from holding wire to battery's top) - my recreation of the world's simplest motor, found on supermagnete.de
(see also: http://shifz.blogspo t.com/2006/07/electr omagnetic-fun-for-be ginners.html)
"Robotender Ernie" by Honeybee Robotics
to my knowledge the first bartending robot on earth.
mixing, serving, talking. speech-recognizing, interacting.
see also: http://shifz.blogspo t.com/2006/08/worlds -first-cocktailrobot -from-1980s.html