(posted in my structured programming class on Jan. 26, 2011. The topic was if we could build any robot, what would it do?)
My robot would be sort of like my butler. He would offer me three vital services. He, of course, would be sized, shaped and styled just like R2-D2 and would spend his time at his charging dock until summoned. The he would approach and offer a menu of choices accompanied by friendly beeps and whistles signifying the excellence of my choice. He would make suggestions of my three choices based on an random algorithm that floated between learned decisions and unused ones. My three vital decisions would be; cigar, liquor, or beer. I would make my choice on the touch-screen menu and then the beauty of the machine would show.
The cigar portion would be a built in, self regulating humidifier that work on a similar principal to a jukebox. This would require humidifier solution additions on occasion and would warn me when it was getting low. Once the cigar choice was made it would find and remove it from the internal humidor. It would then snip the cap, and torch cigar while slowly rotating it. Once the end was properly toasted a light vacuum pressure would be applied to fully light the cigar. It would then eject it out horizontilly and beep for me to take it. One of the panels would open on the top and allow it to be used as an ashtray.
The beer would be housed in an adjoining yet seperate refrigerated a compartment with the liquor. The beer selection would find the stocked beer, pop the cap (while dropping it into a small tray in the bottom of the unit), and then lift it vertically out of the unit in a similar style to a light saber in return of the Jedi. From its vertical tube that it was dispensed out of it would remain chilled in this 'cup holder' as part of the insulated refrigeration side.
The liquor side would hold 2-4 750ml bottles of scotch gin and perhaps an Irish whiskey. For sake of my imagination I will choose Ballentine's, Gordons, and Jamesons. It would have a compartment on the top to house glasses in secure foam. The bottles would be attached to a part of the vacuum system by hoses to dispense wonderfully chilled liquids without any of that pesky ice diluting them down. It would kind of be the same principal as a refrigerator's, ice maker's, water dispenser.
Once finished a tap on the screen would return it to its charging base with a happy, job well-done whistle. ;)
