Whether you've got an essay to write, some numbers to crunch or whatever responsibility that keeps you picking away at your keyboard late into the night (Facebook), there's a point where you hit a wall and only a nice cold brewsky can get you moving again. But in the case you're too wrapped up in your work or simply too fried to remember how to use your legs, the PR2 Robot by Willow Garage is here to help and fetch your beer for you upon your request.

So how does it work? Well, first off you have to be really lazy. And thirsty. This is probably the easiest step of all the following already easy steps. Next, using Beer Me, a web app designed specifically for you to communicate with your beer bot, you place your order, quantity and location, sending off Mr. PR2 to the fridge to stock up using object recognition (you'll be notified if your beer of choice is out of stock). Your beers are then loaded into PR2's foamy cup holder rack and delivered back to you (after closing the fridge door, of course). The hardest step of the entire process would probably be the last when you actually have to get up to receive your beer since Mr. Roboto won't complete the hand-off until it detects a face to receive the brewsky bounty.

I know I tend to be a bit of a cynic when it comes to robots being created for mundane life activities. I mean, the robot uprising is and always will be a threat. But for the first time in... forever, I think I have found something that I actually want to use. If only I had one right now. It'd be even better if it would be willing to go heat up my leftover spaghetti. Walking to the microwave just feels so... daunting.

Read more about Willow Garage's awesome PR2/Beer Me, Robot here.

[via DVICE]