Sci-fi bars usually have a robot bartender, and for good reason. The algorithmic mixtures of the robot be sure that each drink is often perfect. Now two engineers is making the robot bartender a reality, sans the power to empathize together with your drunken whining.

Meet Bartendro, a “cocktail dispensing robot” from the folk at Party Robotics. The machine is being billed because the ultimate drink maker because it can easily and quickly make any drink you could think about. It’s extremely portable and simply programmable so that you can serve any sort of drink at any party.

Bartendro becomes a reality if it’s ready to raise $135,000 on Kickstarter within the next 26 days. The project already has 124 backers pledging $37,008, but it surely’s gonna want a lot more support before our robotic alcohol overlords become a reality.

So, how much is that this thing going to price The bottom Bartendro, called the Shotbot, comes with a single dispenser and prices $249. Things get a piece costlier as you progress to more custom built dispensers. The Bartendro 3 will cost $499, the Bartendro 7 costs $1,199 and the Bartendro 15 goes for $2,499.

The most fun part about this project, however, is Party Robotics plans to construct a drink database. The team is collecting recipes from all over in order that Bartendro can perfectly create any drink. It’d be a gigantic help for those people who’re terrible at following drink recipes. I always unwittingly add an excessive amount of alcohol, thus overpowering any semblance of sweetness present in the drink. The $499 asking price is probably worth it if it means I never must waste any further alcohol on botched recipe experiments.

[h/t: CNET]