Robot Bartenders

Details are sketchy but robots are mixing cocktails. At first, I thought “Great!” because, you know, robots. Upon consideration, I prefer the human touch in matters of mixology, where creative spark and lack of exactitude result in appealing creations.

Also, I recall the brief scene in The Fifth Element in which a bartender from the future serves Ian Holm’s character a drink:

Father Vito Cornelius:

[Confiding to an off-screen bartender.] I know she’s made to be strong but she’s also so fragile, so human. Know what I mean? [Pull back. Bartender is revealed to be a robot.]

Bartender:

[Shakes head, “No.”]

Let those clinking, clattering cacophonies of caliginous cogs and camshafts stick to what they do best: welding and destroying Skynet.