Ananova:

A group of Dutch student have developed a robot that they say can pour the perfect pint of beer.

It takes one minute and 11 seconds for Hermann, one of five prototypes, to pour a beer.

Students at the Technical University of Darmstadt say he is designed to pour the frothy German wheat beer at exactly the right angle.

Professor Thomas Weber set 23 science students the task of designing the robot and insisted they pay attention to "aesthetics" - meaning the beer had to have a head on it.

Weber set his students a £53 limit for construction expenses in the hope that Hermann might go into mass production.

"We don't want to compete with landlords," said Weber, "merely make their lives and those of their waiters easier."