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Perhaps the ultimate in home automation - your own BeerBot to pour you a cold glass when you arrive home after a hard day!  "Here's a match made in heaven: beer and robots. For most of the world, it's a match we are left to simply dream of (you know, slave bots bringing you a cold one, instead of the usual "Get it yourself!") If you live in Japan however, you should know that Asahi is running a promotion where they'll be giving away 5,000 fully stocked refrigerator robots. What do these lovely creatures do...

The first of these £8,000 Home Robots were delivered to their new owers in Japan a few days ago...

"The launch has been widely anticipated in Japan, where media have followed the development of the 3ft yellow robot with a quizzical expression for more than three years...

Via Engadget.com... "When you think about it, one of the best things about the Roomba is watching it completely freak out your pets while it vacuums your floors, but if you just can't bear to be in the house while the Roomba does its robovac thing, iRobot is releasing a new version called the Roomba Scheduler...

"From the BBC's technology News pages... Robots are set to become increasingly familiar companions in homes by 2007, says a United Nations survey. Seven times more robots will helping us out with the cleaning, security and entertainment in three years' time, as their price falls and they get smarter...