Cafe X debuts robotic barista

Posted on 31 Jan 2017 by Michael Cruickshank

US robotics startup Cafe X has debuted a fully robotic barista at a cafe in San Francisco's Metreon shopping center.

The robot, which is nicknamed ‘Gordon’ can make a number of different types of coffee on demand in under a minute. Customers order and pay for their drink with an app which Cafe X had already previous developed in-house. The system itself combines two coffee roasting and grinding machines with a robotic arm manufactured by…

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