Roboexotica, the festival for cocktail robots, is taking place in Vienna, Austria right. We are there covering the madness and are in the process of producing a couple of juicy segments for you. Until then, wet your appetite with these clips of five bots on display hosted by the almost voiceless Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom.

1: Chapek & Tyler’s WaiterBot

2: WERP-Bot (aka CigFlipper)

6: Vino-Viper

While recently in New York City for HOPE2006, we caught up with Johannes, the main instigator of the Austrian based art-technology-philosophy group called monochrom. Johannes explains Roboexotica, an annual competition and expo for robots that serve cocktails to humans. Is this all a sausage party or is there real meat behind all this? Come find out.

Episode links: monochrom, Roboexotica, HOPE6, Cocktailbot1, Cocktailbot2, Cocktailbot3, Cigbot, Sausage Party, Let’s Network It Out

Irina takes Jacob Appelbaum aside at the recent Laughing Squid party to probe him on his roboerotic ways.