http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/91 Help Austrian <a href="http://www.shifz.org/cocktailrobots/">Cocktailrobots</a> travel to San Francisco's <a href="http://robogames.net">RoboGames</a> June 2007!<br> <br> Austrians have an 8 year tradition of building cocktail-mixing and serving robots, like<br> <b>this one</b>: <a href="http://shifz.blogspot.com/2006/10/featured-cocktailrobot-robomoji.html">http://shifz.blogspot.com/2006/10/featured-cocktailrobot-robomoji.html</a><br> <b>or that</b>: <a href="http://shifz.blogspot.com/2006/08/featured-cocktailrobot-cockbot-one.html">http://shifz.blogspot.com/2006/08/featured-cocktailrobot-cockbot-one.html</a><br> and robots with other achievements in the sector of modern cocktailculture, like<br> <b>this one</b>: <a href="http://shifz.blogspot.com/2006/09/smoking-robot-better-video.html">http://shifz.blogspot.com/2006/09/smoking-robot-better-video.html</a><br> <b>or that</b>: <a href="http://shifz.blogspot.com/2006/12/annual-cocktail-robot-awards-80-4th.html">http://shifz.blogspot.com/2006/12/annual-cocktail-robot-awards-80-4th.html</a><br> <br> Since RoboGames are featuring a "bartending"-category the third year now, and it has come to our knowledge that the competition isn't exactly going tough, as the only competing bot so far was the RoboGames' founder's ...<br> we (the people doing the annual Cocktailrobotics-festival <a href="http://roboexotica.org">ROBOEXOTICA</a>) want to bring a couple of the local pieces (and their makers) over to S.F. - and wherever else we can get the travel-costs covered, so that Californians too can enjoy a rich cocktailrobotic environment.<br> <br> If we get around $1000,- we'll send an emissary to promote cocktailrobotic values and represent Austrian efforts in the field.<br> Between 2000,- and 5000,- will provide for a scalable delegation with robots being sent over.<br> <br> <b>UPDATE: It's definite now: we're going!</b> An invitation to Maker Faire mid-may pays for two tickets. <br> <b>Thanks for your donations so far - they are helping to pay for the transport costs of the bots we are taking. </b> en-us Donation from Anonymous shifzr@pledgie.com Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:44:33 -0700 http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/91 http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/91#0 Donation from Anonymous shifzr@pledgie.com Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:27:19 -0700 http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/91 http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/91#1 Donation from Anonymous shifzr@pledgie.com Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:36:49 -0700 http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/91 http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/91#2