A lighted multicolor status bar lets you know what is happening, but there are no buttons or control panels - all the commands and recipes are sent to Barsys via Bluetooth and the app, available for Android and iOS. Hidden inside is a specially designed glass blender capsule that creates the “V-Vortex,” a mini-tornado at up to 300rpm (varies by recipe) to mix drinks while perfectly uniformly distributing ingredients.
Barsys can even dispense non-alcoholic mocktails and beverages like straightforward soda. Pipes on the back connect to insulated, pressurized stainless steel bottle that hold your mixers and keep them bubbly (if carbonated) and at the desired temperature for 15-18 hours.
Tickets cost $250 at unit is the size and shape of a high-quality home espresso machine, and topped with five universal couplers, essentially nipples made of thermoplastic, on which you set upside down full-sized liquor bottles (they are right side up when you attach them, don’t worry). Saturday, February 26, and Sunday, February 27. If you want to meet Cecilia and have her mix you a cocktail, she'll be at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival Grand Tasting Village (13th Street and the beach, Miami Beach) from noon to 5 p.m.
"It's always about what's next. We need to keep our FIU learners at the cutting edge. If we rested on a textbook, we'd be left in the dust." "We're teaching students how we program Cecilia, and they're also creating the menu for her," Kobi explains.īrian Connors, director of FIU's Bacardi Center of Excellence, says having Cecilia interact with students helps teach them the technology they're likely to see in the restaurants and bars where they'll be working five years from now. Right now, Cecilia is residing at Florida International University's Chaplin School of Hospitality, where students are learning the technology behind the bartender. The cost of having Cecilia at your bar, by the way? A 36-month lease costs $2,300 per month. You can buy Cecilia outright for $60,000. Though Kobi declined to name names, he says some Las Vegas hotels, NBA teams, and tech companies were interested in Cecilia. Right now, there's only one Cecilia, but already Cecilia.ai is taking orders from hotels, sports stadiums, and other hospitality companies. "Cecilia is not meant to replace humans, but she's here to help," he says, adding that Cecilia would be great at providing a specialty drink at a bar or lending a hand during crunch time. Of course, a bartender does much more than make drinks, acknowledges Kobi. But she can recite the drinks she can make and even suggest a bespoke cocktail for you if you tell her your preferences.Ĭecilia can also collect data like cocktail preferences, so if your favorite Singapore Sling isn't selling, a bar manager can take it out of Cecilia's cocktail list. "You can laugh with her, she can tell you jokes, and she will make you a very good cocktail," Kobi says.Ĭecilia is also programmed with a host of recipes, along with 12 different ingredients, so she can't mix you a pink squirrel if she's not equipped with the recipes and proper items. Elad Kobi, CEO of Israel-based Cecilia.ai, says he and his team love robots and alcohol, so two and a half years ago, they decided to combine the two passions.Ĭecilia works with artificial-intelligence technology, so customers can interact with her while they're getting a drink. In fact, Cecilia is the world's first interactive robot bartender. Like any bartender worth their salt, Cecilia can make a great cocktail, keep a clean bar, and even get in a few snappy comebacks.īut there's one significant difference between Cecilia and the average drink slinger: Cecilla is a robot.
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