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While some food and drink crowd-funding projects get major backing like Bartendro, a cocktail dispensing robot (pictured), other good ideas like the Drink Runner "a personal drink butler," crash and burn. Here, a few new peculiar crowd-funding campaigns. (Read More)

Software has traditionally been the biggest time suck in the product development process. But it's the mechanical parts that now are flummoxing a new wave of Internet entrepreneurs and tinkerers. (Read More)

Dear Backers, Our campaign has ended and you've helped us raise nearly $200k, far exceeding our goal. We're thrilled and very grateful for your support getting to this point. Thanks for being a part of this journey. For us, this is where hard work... (Read More)

Hi Kickstarters,  Only 4 days to go until our campaign is over! Thank you for helping us spread the word, and getting us this far. We've met our funding goal, so Bartendro will become real and start making your drinks in the near future!  The past... (Read More)

To all who have been following this project, we are very grateful for your support. We are funded and are going to work as hard as we can to deliver you some awesome stuff as soon as we can. In the meantime, here are some dispenser specs that many of... (Read More)

Bartendro is a robot that precisely creates mixed drinks, according to trusted recipes, in seconds. At parties, visitors can order what they want to drink with a smartphone or tablet app and viola, Bartendro gets to mixing. The portable drink machine is easy to set up and clean. (Read More)

Hello All,  We are so thrilled by all the backers that believe in us and want to see this project become real. We've received a ton of questions and have been doing our best to stay on top of them. The most common questions are getting answered at... (Read More)

A unique cocktail making robot called the Bartendro has launched on Kickstarter this week looking to make the jump from concept to production. So if you need a little help making your favourite cocktail drinks or have a party on the horizon, the Bartendro cocktail making robot might be worth more investigation. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action. (Read More)

If you prefer robot bartenders to lack limbs that could be used against you in the impending robopocalypse, Bartendro might be your kind of bot. After two years of building and tweaking, the folks at Party Robotics have finally polished their Raspberry Pi-powered cocktail-making rig and have posted it to Kickstarter. (Read More)

Robert Kaye sez, "Among the many standout cocktail-pouring robots on display this weekend at BarBot in San Francisco was Bartendro, the latest creation by Robert Kaye and Pierre Michael of Party Robotics. (They're also the creators of the Water to Wine watercooler gag featured recently on Make.) If you've ever wanted an open source robot to help you refine your recipe for the perfect margarita, or needed an extra hand serving drinks at a party, they've now launched a Kickstarter for the first production run of Bartendro. (Read More)