Heineken Robot Pours Beer for You

This Heineken pouring robot from Middlesex University was strutting its stuff at the Kinetica Gallery in London recently, driving around a table and pouring beer (a very little bit of beer) on demand. The bot is equipped with obstacle avoidance sensors as well as a sensor on top that you can wave at to signal the robot to stop and serve you… Plus it has what looks like a giant emergency STOP button just in case it decides to, uh, try and run over someone. Don’t kid yourself, though, there’s (potentially) a lot of energy in a beer keg, so in the event of a battery fire, it would likely be best to panic.