Although robots have a lot of different applications, only in very  few cases they are involved in interaction with an end-user. Progresses in the development of service-robots in the service of households during the century have been very promising.

While robots will assemble a car in the blink of an eye with no problem, by end of the first decade of the 21st century there is still very little effort made on introducing robotics to the environment of a cocktail-bar.
Individual solutions brought forward by original gastronomers and artists dominate the scene next to student-projects.

Until 1999 no attempts were made to create a competition of developing technologies  or to introduce cocktail-robotic as an index for the integration of technological achievements in everyday life, and as a means of documenting the creation of new interfaces for man-machine-interaction, a priori dedicated to hedonism!

That void has been occupied for more than five years now by the ROBOEXOTICA,
around which a pool of creative people has assembled, who are now responsible for new ideas on the topic year after year.
The ROBOEXOTICA tries to establish worldwide contacts with developers of cocktail-robotics and to function as an international platform for anybody interested in the topic.

It would be an honor for us if you participate in any form!

Cheers!
With best regards,
Magnus Wurzer
(SHIFZ - The Syntharturalists - Dept. of Futurology)