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The Cyberdog in the Czech capital features a
robotic bartender who serves drinks ordered through a phone app.
Opened on Wednesday by real estate developer Trigema, its
two-level steel structure looks rather like a space station,
with 40 seats and small upper deck.
And never mind George Orwell's sentiment in his essay "The Moon
Under Water" that the perfect pub has "barmaids (who) know most
of their customers by name, and take a personal interest in
everyone".
In the Cyberdog, after the customers have ordered their tipple
via an app, a red robotic arm picks among seven wines on offer
in a cool box. It then opens the bottle and pours up to four
glasses at a time.
Next it lifts the glasses on a tray that travels overhead to the
customers' table, then lowers the load so people can pick up
their glasses.
Trigema owner Marcel Soural said he was sure the service sector
would follow manufacturing in replacing expensive labor with
machines.
"I am deeply convinced that in some time, when you will be
served in a restaurant by a real person, it will be a terribly
expensive restaurant because it will be unique," he said.
Soural said there were already a few robotic bars around the
world but the Cyberdog robot performed more complex tasks than
the others - even doing little dances.
"When he has no order, he is bored and he shows that by making
moves according to what he has in his programming."
The bar, created by artist David Cerny and architect Tomas Cisar,
also serves food meant to resemble astronauts' diets. That is
prepared by people, at least for now.
(Reporting by Jan Lopatka; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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