This AI-Powered Drink Machine Slops You Up Some Generative Booze

Listen, CES 2026 is stuffed with AI devices, and loads of them are sort of the identical. Some AI devices transcribe things; some assist you to sport; some keep in mind your favourite shade or no matter. But just one—one—to my data can get you drunk.

The R1, which caught my eye at CES 2026, is what an organization known as Breakreal is billing as an “AI bartender,” which might be precisely what you suppose it’s. It’s like a Bartesian cocktail machine, however it makes use of AI to slop up your cocktail with a little bit AI personalization. With the R1, you should use a companion app to have the system make you a customized cocktail catered to your temper, or desire of alcohol. You may even inform it to only shut up and make you an excellent ol’ normal old school.

Breakreal tells me that the R1 can solely course of as much as 8 totally different components concurrently, together with syrups, alcohol, soda, and juice. That’s not dangerous, although you’d higher hope that these 8 components are belongings you wish to drink on a regular basis; in any other case, I may see this system being a mega ache within the ass.

I bought a demo of how the machine labored, which concerned a consultant for Breakreal utilizing the app to sort that they have been completely satisfied to be at CES and to make a drink primarily based on that. You may additionally use your voice to say that if typing isn’t your jam. Once the app creates your drink, you may ship the recipe to the machine and watch the R1 do its magic.

The drink-making is a bit gradual primarily based on the demo that I noticed, however Breakreal says it really works inside 20 to 40 seconds. I’m not totally positive what the R1 generated, however it did make… one thing. I didn’t a lot look after consuming out of a public, open-air cup at CES, so I can’t let you know the way it tasted, however the liquid was there. Some of that liquid was positively popping out of the arm of the machine and never the nozzle (it was leaking), which felt a little bit problematic, however perhaps it was simply all of the CES quantity…

Personally, I don’t suppose bartenders must sweat for now.

Nothing about this expertise is affordable, by the way in which. The R1 will value $1,099 at early fowl pricing and $1,299 MSRP at full worth, and that’s lots to pay for an “AI bartender” when you may simply, like, go to an actual bar, however who am I to let you know methods to booze? That’ll be one Slop-tini, developing.

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