It seems lately that all we talk about here at Accure and carpark is beer. This time however, it’s not Foster’s we’re talking about. Coming off the haze of Draught beer and a long week, we look further abroad to the Far East and find in typical Japanese Techness, Asahi’s beer pouring robot. (Can you imagine the Melbourne Cup barby?)

This little dude stores, cracks open and pours the Asahi Super Dry for you. Judging by the video though, the pour is about as good as the bar tenders in Lan Kwai Fong - HK, atrocious! He has a built-in refrigerator to hold a six-pack, which is probably sufficient in some Asian countries but we’d be looking at the 12 can upgrade as a bare minimum here.

Now, if you’re one of those stuffy, social commentators who believes Talking Boony is a Trojan Horse to encourage mindless binge drinking, I’d love to hear what you think of something that actually opens and pours the beer for you! It kinda blows “get me a VB, the crickets about to start” out of the park doesn’t it? Or how about this from Candy Addict? The problems I see are a little less socially orientated and centres around the fact that it doesn’t follow you around cold beer in tow and the squeaky little pokemon voice definately has to go.

Asahi Breweries in Japan ran a good little promotion (we’re not sure who the agency was) with these robots this year and as part of a collect and send competition gave away 5000 robots to lucky consumers savvy enough to collect 36 seals from limited Asahi beer cans. We are told that these androids are not destined for the market, but if anyone can tell us where we can get one, we’d be most pleased. Unfortuneatley, we currently don’t have a client silly enough ready to invest the coin with us to bring a similar promotion to life here and create our own.

Watch the robot in action via YouTube here but we’ve warned you about the squeaky little voice!

More at Gizmodo and Newlaunches.