The bionic bartender! Wine bar in Prague replaces staff with robots

Forget the days of nursing a drink at the bar while pouring out your woes to the bartende - at least if a new establishment in Prague is a sign of the future. Cyberdog in the Czech capital features a robotic bartender who serves drinks ordered through a phone app. Opened earlier this week by real estate developer Trigema, its two-level steel structure looks rather like a space station, with 40 seats and small upper deck. And never mind George Orwell's sentiment in his essay'The Moon Under Water' that the perfect pub has'barmaids (who) know most of their customers by name, and take a personal interest in everyone'. In the Cyberdog, after the customers have ordered their tipple via an app, a red robotic arm picks among seven wines on offer in a cool box.