Swiss robot bartender mixes cocktails and tells jokes at bar amid coronavirus pandemic

A Swiss robot bartender called Barney can mix 16 different spirits and eight different sodas for customers who place their orders via their mobile phones. The robot is becoming popular amid the pandemic.

Barney is a bit different from your usual Swiss bartender. He is fully automated, mixes dozens of cocktails and even makes terrible jokes. Developer F & P Robotics says it is seeing rising interest in "The Barney Bar" and hopes it will be a hit among hotels, bars and shopping centres looking to reduce human contact during and after the coronavirus pandemic. Barney can mix 16 different spirits and eight different sodas for customers who place their orders via their mobile phones, as well as offering beer and prosecco. The robot, who can disinfect his own robotic arm, tells them their drink is ready via a large video display above the bar.