Just when you thought beer-drinking couldn’t get any better, along comes the Autonomous Beer-Opening Robot, or ABOR.
It was built by Jean-Phillipe Clerc, a mechanical engineering master’s student at the University of Florida, as part of the school’s Intelligent Machine Design Laboratory class.
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This has got to be one of the best lazy man inventions that I have seen in a long time. If they could Sony could integrate that concept into the Aibo, then they might actually have a highly sellable product!