Help Austrian Cocktailrobots travel to San Francisco’s RoboGames June 2007!

Austrians have an 8 year tradition of building cocktail-mixing and serving robots, like
this one: http://shifz.blogspot.com/2006/10/featured-cocktailrobot-robomoji.html
or that: http://shifz.blogspot.com/2006/08/featured-cocktailrobot-cockbot-one.html
and robots with other achievements in the sector of modern cocktailculture, like
this one: http://shifz.blogspot.com/2006/09/smoking-robot-better-video.html
or that: http://shifz.blogspot.com/2006/12/annual-cocktail-robot-awards-80-4th.html

Since RoboGames are featuring a “bartending”-category the third year now, and it has come to our knowledge that the competition isn’t exactly going tough, as the only competing bot so far was the RoboGames’ founder’s …
we (the people doing the annual Cocktailrobotics-festival ROBOEXOTICA) want to bring a couple of the local pieces (and their makers) over to S.F. – and wherever else we can get the travel-costs covered, so that Californians too can enjoy a rich cocktailrobotic environment.

If we get around $1000,- we’ll send an emissary to promote cocktailrobotic values and represent Austrian efforts in the field.
Between 2000,- and 5000,- will provide for a scalable delegation with robots being sent over.

UPDATE: It’s definite now: we’re going! An invitation to Maker Faire mid-may pays for two tickets.
Thanks for your donations so far – they are helping to pay for the transport costs of the bots we are taking.