People like going to festivals, and there are all sorts of things to be festive about. There are festivals for cars. For books. For appliances. For candles even.

One festival you probably haven't heard of is called Roboexotica. Some may find the focus of this festival incredibly important. The annual Roboexotica festival, taking place this weekend in Vienna, is all about building better booze serving robots.

But it's more than that! Here is sort of a mission statement for the event, taken from the Roboexotica website: "Until recently, no attempts had been made to publically discuss the role of cocktail robotics as an index for the integration of technological innovations into the human Lebenswelt [environment], or to document the increasing occurrence of radical hedonism in man-machine communication. Roboexotica is an attempt to fill this vacuum. It is the first and, inevitably, the leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics world-wide. A micro mechanical change of paradigm in the age of borderless capital."

While this festival is centered on building robots that are ever-capable to deliver drinks to paying human customers, beyond this, the ever-expanding relationship of robots and man is investigated by scientists, artists, designers, and people interested in robots that serve drinks.

The festival began in 2002 by Austrian art collectives known as monochrom and Shifz. Besides drinking, talks are given, exhibitions are exhibited, and the ACRA is awarded (thats the Annual Cocktail Robot Award.)

If you are by Vienna this weekend, maybe you should swing by and check it out.

Just watch out for oil, in any of your drinks.