Drink like a Crazed Engineer

[cavehamster]

Good thinking, everything else is jsut adding another movement, but a layering action would take some FINE gauging of the physics involved, and likely awareness of humidity, temperature, and atmospheric pressure.

Mixed drinks a machien could do, layered I think is out of luck without a serious R+D budget

I think this is still doable.  Imagine a pouring spout mounted on a geared rail, with a 'spoon' on a servo, and a laser or ultrasonic range finder (or just using calculated reckoning).  Insert cup, machine determines how far it is to the bottom of the glass, inserts pouring spout and pours at <rate>.  It retracts to a proper distance as verified by your distancing sensor, inserts spoon into pour stream if required, and dispenses the next layer at the right rate to minimize mixing.  I mean, that's all you are really doing by hand, anyway.

[LMNO]

many high-volume bars (especially in cheapo drinking destinations like Cancun, Vegas, and St. Thomas)  have machines where the house specialties and popular mixed drinks are programmed in, there's a touchscreen POS system, and the machine dispenses the ordered drink in precisely measured amounts.

Some of them even have a separate bank of dispenser taps for the frozen drinks, held premixed in giant rotating frozen drums.

Bartenders in alot of these places are hired for the size of their tits.

[Richter]

many high-volume bars (especially in cheapo drinking destinations like Cancun, Vegas, and St. Thomas)  have machines where the house specialties and popular mixed drinks are programmed in, there's a touchscreen POS system, and the machine dispenses the ordered drink in precisely measured amounts.

Some of them even have a separate bank of dispenser taps for the frozen drinks, held premixed in giant rotating frozen drums.

Bartenders in alot of these places are hired for the size of their tits.

Makes THIS especially relevant.

http://gizmodo.com/5475133/breast-pumps-are-the-vital-ingredient-in-drink-mixing-robot

[cavehamster]

Scalable vector formats!!!

http://engineers-drinks.blogspot.com/