Features Podcasts Family Video Comics Music Tech Science Books Film & TV Games ✚

Jill

Thanks a lot, robot friend

Dean Putney at 11:59 pm Tue, Apr 10, 2012

— FEATURED —

THE LATEST

Guatemala: Archive of documents from Rios Montt genocide trial, overturned 10 days after guilty verdict

THE LATEST

Guatemala: Nation's highest court throws out Ríos Montt genocide trial verdict and prison sentence

Feature

Eurovision 2013: An American in London

Book Review

The Twelve-Fingered Boy - mesmerizing YA horror novel

Book Review

Black Code: how spies, cops and crims are making cyberspace unfit for human habitation

— FOLLOW US —

Boing Boing is on Twitter and Facebook. Subscribe to our RSS feed or daily email.

 

— POLICIES —

Except where indicated, Boing Boing is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution

 

— FONTS —

Tweet
Kindle

Brandon Boyer gives this the lofty designation of "the funniest 20 seconds of video". Even after repeated viewings, I can't stop laughing.

[Video Link]

Software developer and GIF archivist in San Francisco. Follow me on Twitter.

MORE:  the robot apocalypse is coming

More at Boing Boing

Eurovision 2013: An American in London

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek

  • Labbit

    Domo arigato…

  • mobobo

    love the “humf…thanks” at the end

  • eldritch

    Humor is indeed subjective.

  • http://twitter.com/there_from_here John Carter

    Err, that’s not even the funniest 20 seconds of video featuring Carling.

  • http://www.markcrummett.com crummett

    1- An animated GIF waiting to happen.
    2- I kept waiting for it to dump the strawberries into the beer.
    3- Best part? The arm falling off. It sounds like it’s saying “Oh dear, my arm has fallen off!”

  • http://twitter.com/colinrosenthal Colin Rosenthal

    With a build-up like that it was bound to be a disappointment.

  • beemoh

    It’s okay, Dean (and Brandon), I found it funny.

    • Glen Able

      Yeah, I thought it was wonderful.  We really aren’t living in the future of helpful robots we were promised!  This one probably also bursts into flames for no reason at 3 a.m.

      Anyway, I very much hope the people who didn’t like it will take a moment out of their busy day to register their disapproval.

  • polm23

    I didn’t find this very funny either, but the robot is cute. His name is Shakurai-kun (シャクライ君) if you want more from the Google. It looks like he’s from 2002, costs about $50, and pours standard beer cans just fine. 

    Product Page:
    http://catalog.bandai.co.jp/item/4543112119803000.html

  • Ipo

    The second time I watched I had to laugh. 
    He’s so cheerful in utter failure.  

    • Dave X

       Kind of like whoever called this “the funniest 20 seconds of video.”

  • Tim Drage

    Dunno what’s wrong with you guys, I can’t think of any amount of hyperbole which would have made this seem not extremely funny.

    • Tim Drage

      I bet you’re the people who actually found 3 months of endless posts about anagrams of train maps amusing

  • blorgggg

    My question is, why does the arm fall off, AFTER it empties the beer?

    • Steve Taylor

      Well if the arm fell off first it couldn’t pour the beer now, could it?

      It’s just a matter of good product design.

  • http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

    Humour is indeed subjective; but if you don’t find this even mildly amusing I’m going to assume that you’re more broken than the robot.

  • WinstonSmith2012

    With apologies to Cheech and Chong:

    “Honorable kamikaze robot, you are embarking on MOOOOST dangerous mission. Taking beer can HIGH up in sky, you will search out Yankee beer glass. Then, you will rotate honorable beer can DOWWN, spilling it on yourself and everywhere else. Now, before we have ceremonial sake toast, are there any questions? Yes, you in the back, Sakimora! ” “Honorable general sir!” “Yes?” “Are you out of you f’ing mind?”

  • Meadslosh

    This robot should hang out with the automato57. 
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlBP_ni7ggY

    • haineux

      Holy moly that’s an awesome robot.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=717616571 K. Signal Eingang

      I was thinking exactly that thing.

  • http://twitter.com/HubrisSonic HubrisSonic

    thats fucking great!

  • http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

    <————–Still laughing. Loved it!

  • haineux

    Haters gonna hate. This is a wonderful thing.

  • http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers

    If only some sparks flew out and the voice slowed down to demon pitch.

  • piroghi

    I laughed my ass off, which is kind of ironic because I was keeping a can of Carling warm up there.

  • http://www.tumbleweed.net/ tyger11

     Reminds me a bit of (the new) Willy Wonka’s welcome to his chocolate factory.

  • omnivore

    After just one viewing I was able to stop laughing.

  • allium

    “If I pour the beer, I’m an enabler. If I drop the beer, I make a mess. Somehow I managed to do both, and now I’m down a limb. My life is a semiconducting fart.”

  • nyctreeman

    our squacco is brilliant ;)

  • Brainspore

    I propose a toast to this glorious, selfless robot.

  • Robert

    Honestly, the only thing that could have made it funnier is if it silently caught fire a few seconds after the “hmph… thanks.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1409228320 Randall Cooper

    I, for one, Welcome our new robot bartenders!

  • JohnnyAstro

    My 10 YO daughter and I built a soda pouring robot with Lego Mindstorms last year for her science project. I didn’t know this was a real thing! Here’s a video of it in action. Sorry, but it never falls apart… http://youtu.be/mbiF-FqyR0Q

  • http://onespeedgo.blogspot.com/ John Romeo Alpha

    I find this poignant and it fills me with despair for us all. We live in the age of the self-destructing beer spilling robot, and our soundtrack is a hyper-manic Japanese program that even its own producers only half understand. 

  • Frank Diekman

    Does anyone know what the robot is saying?

    • SumAnon

      Vaguely. It’s talking like a waiter. Something like “thank you for coming” then “Yea,yea, lets drinking  (something)”  my translation is bad since it was a bit florid Japanese.

  • http://www.epinardscaramel.com TokenFrenchDude

    I guess the beer was too large ?