Listen, CES 2026 is full of AI gadgets, and a lot of them are kind of the same. Some AI gadgets transcribe things; some help you game; some remember your favorite color or whatever. But only one—one—to my knowledge can get you drunk.

The R1, which caught my eye at CES 2026, is what a company called Breakreal is billing as an “AI bartender,” which is probably exactly what you think it is. It’s like a Bartesian cocktail machine, but it uses AI to slop up your cocktail with a little AI personalization. With the R1, you can use a companion app to have the device make you a personalized cocktail catered to your mood, or preference of alcohol. You can even tell it to just shut up and make you a good ol’ fashioned old-fashioned.

Breakreal tells me that the R1 can only process up to 8 different ingredients simultaneously, including syrups, alcohol, soda, and juice. That’s not bad, though you’d better hope that those 8 ingredients are things you want to drink all the time; otherwise, I could see this device being a mega pain in the ass.

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I got a demo of how the machine worked, which involved a representative for Breakreal using the app to type that they were happy to be at CES and to make a drink based on that. You could also use your voice to say that if typing isn’t your jam. Once the app creates your drink, you can send the recipe to the machine and watch the R1 do its magic.

The drink-making is a bit slow based on the demo that I saw, but Breakreal says it works within 20 to 40 seconds. I’m not entirely sure what the R1 generated, but it did make… something. I didn’t much care for drinking out of a public, open-air cup at CES, so I can’t tell you how it tasted, but the liquid was there. Some of that liquid was definitely coming out of the arm of the machine and not the nozzle (it was leaking), which felt a little problematic, but maybe it was just all the CES volume…

Personally, I don’t think bartenders need to sweat for now.

Nothing about this experience is cheap, by the way. The R1 will cost $1,099 at early bird pricing and $1,299 MSRP at full price, and that’s a lot to pay for an “AI bartender” when you could just, like, go to a real bar, but who am I to tell you how to booze? That’ll be one Slop-tini, coming up.

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