Bartenders

I can see a bar that's automated existing, but not outside the odd novelty place with a ton of money. Customers want interaction, to talk, and bartenders don't just serve drinks, they also need to keep the bar clean, restock, sometimes take phone calls, and automating all of that would again, be possible, but by the time you've done it, you've poured so much money into it you may as well have hired three people to do it. I think there's a lot of jobs that can be automated easily in theory, but in practice, costs and what the job entails would make automating it pointless. It'll be the uber rich enjoying the robot maids.

The job is about customer connection and the ability to understand a person’s taste, something that is extremely if not impossible to automate.

I feel like it will be done by a machine more accurately and with less errors

While people could buy a beer or a mixed drink from a vending machine, I don't think that is what people are looking for when they go to the bar. Maybe at a club where something else is the main focus.

Unless AI becomes so advanced that it can feel emotions, there is no way a robot can replace a human being, as a bartender. A bartender is much more than a cocktail machine, the bartender is the face of the establishment, and you cannot automate the experience of sitting and chatting with a bartender.

A robot can pour a drink but its going to be a while until they can listen to you talk about your problems

Main reason why bartenders will NOT be replaced by robots: mixing and serving the cocktails are only a small portion of the job. The social interaction is the most important part about being a good bartender. Can the robot be a little more efficient or faster? Sure. The hourly labor costs of a bartender does not warrant a need by any owner to replace a human with a robot. The vast majority of most bartenders’ income is from tips. Owners of companies who would find it reasonable to replace humans with robots are humans in different industries where social interaction isn’t the biggest part of the job, who have a higher hourly rate.

There will always be a demand for human interaction. They can go ahead and automate the service well though.

The hospitality skills that bartenders use on a daily basis are simply irreplaceable by machines. It's possible that SOME establishments could automate certain aspects of the process but I can't see a world where bar staff are eliminated entirely. People come to bars to socialize, and for many people, particularly to socialize with the staff.

Some bartnders have prevented suicides, I feel you can't automate that human experience that a lot of people go to a bar for.

Many people have pointed out many reasons why this is unlikely: bartenders aren't expensive to begin with, bartenders provide social interaction that can't be raplaced by a robot, not enough big financial interest in the bar industry, etc. There are other things that bartenders do that can't be automated, like being de facto security in bars with no bouncers. You wouldn't expect a robot to be able to identify a drunk and disorderly customer and eject them from the bar any time soon; even if the technology is there the legality of it seems lightyears away.

It wouldn't be that hard to have all alcoholic beverages available for use from a robot. It's very easy to program the recipes into a robot as well so it will know exactly how to make it; even faster than humans as we would have to look up an unknown recipe, taking longer than a robot could look one up.

There isn't really a NEED to automate a bartender. They aren't paid that much to begin with, so automating them wouldn't render them all that cost effective. I also doubt the efficiency of getting your drink to begin with would fluctuate all that much. With current technology and the limits of our ability to replicate human dexterity, it's unlikely that the speed and accuracy of a bartender could have any competition to begin with. Think about the customer service aspect as well, who wants to be served by a lifeless robot that just scans you as another customer to serve?

I could see big chains with money doing this, especially restaurants, or places that have less human contact behind the bar. Smaller places, no. Not enough money. Bartenders make up a lot of the charm (or frustration) of going out, and automating this literally would take the life out of a place and probably backfire.

When robots mix drinks at the bars I'm going to be the saddest person at the bar since I tend to drink alone. Time to put my phone away and attempt conversation with the other humans.

Bartenders serve libations to Humans. Humans are social beings who drink when socializing. Chances are Humans will go drink to escape robots.

I can't talk to a robot about Karen taking the kids

Tech moves so fast and why pay a wait staff when you could buy AI Bots that dont get sick don't need personal days don't need tips don't need wages food prices go down

Bartenders are slow to make drinks when lines are long which leads to upset and lost customers. AI and automated bartending processes won’t be hard to develop to replace this job and serve customer to make them happier through a quicker service while also making bar owners cut down on costs and get more repeat customers.