Student designs robot to serve up beer - Weekly Specialty Beer Report - Brief Article

Modern Brewery Age, May 6, 2002

Ananova--An engineering student in Florida has invented a robot which can open his beer bottles for him.

It moves along a bar top, steadies a bottle, and then places an opener under the cap and lifts it, before moving on.

Designer Jean-Phillipe Clerc reports that the machine has been named Abor, which stands for Autonomous Beer-Opening Robot.

Abor was built at the University of Florida and can even open screw-top bottles.

Clerc says he went through 134 beers for calibration and testing purposes.

But the master's student from the French Caribbean island of Guadalupe says he prefers wine and champagne.

He said: "I was trying to do something that was unusual and had never been done before."