Posted on 05/08/2018 7:30:18 AM PDT by EdnaMode
The robot revolution is here, at least for your morning caffeine fix. Cafe X Technologies is a new, $25,000 automated barista designed by the award-winning team behind Dr. Dre's Beats headphones and speakers: the Ammunition Group. The Jetsons-style coffeemaker can sling 120 cups of joe per hour at specs that satisfy finicky roasters (and project partners) like Intelligentsia, Ritual and Equator.
The robo unit is essentially a fully operational café beneath a six-axis animatronic arm. Customers place orders on a kiosk touchscreen or via the Cafe X app and receive a text when the drink is ready, after around a minute of preparation. Like at a regular coffeehouse, you get a multitude of beverage options: latte, single-origin espresso, matcha latte, cortado and so on, and with different types of frothy milk, including organic Swedish oat milk. Even the robot gestures are crafted to evoke a true coffee bar experience. As it presents each cup to customers, the machine offers a sweeping "ta-da!" gesture.
"We knew a robot could create an exceptional cup of coffee, but we also wanted it to appear warm and friendly," said inventor Henry Hu, 24, who conceived the idea in his second year at Babson College after being stuck in a coffee line for too long at an airport. "The baristas to me looked like factory workers," he said. "They were moving cups around and pushing buttons, which made me think, 'I bet we can build a product that automates these boring tasks way more efficiently."
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Robots won’t be demanding a living wage for a no skills job.
Is the robot Muslim?
“I went $150,000 into debt to get my degree in Gender Studies and the best job I could get was working at a Starbucks, and ... wait ... what? ... I’m fired? ... because robots??”
Good! Takes too long for the humans to pour a cup of coffee anyways.
This is stupid
This robot has been making me and the wife organic soy lattes every morning for the last 14 years
Who the hell needs someone else to make their espresso for them ?
25000$ ? Duh
What did you expect with that major?
Best of all, it will not racially discriminate.
"...Good!..."
We can wear our MAGA caps and Christian t’s/necklaces now without fear of having something ugly done to an expensive cup of coffee!!!!! YES!!!
Best of all, it will not racially discriminate.
Made by white man
serviced by white man
should have known I wanted sugar even though I didn’t push the button. it did this because I am..............
short cupped me because I am......................
Does it come with gratuitous snark, and baseless arrogance?
I bet the machines get cleaned more regularly.
I am amazed Panera doesn’t have more automation than they do. They make coffee drinks about like I do at home. It’s absurd they don’t have something that more-automates the process.
If it can make a good hot chocolate, sign me up.
I could never stand coffee.
Polishing illegal immigrant shoes.
First they came for the barista. The Walmart greeter was next.
It’s amazing how much money people spend at Starbucks, for something they could make at home for a relative pittance.
If you get a medium coffee at Starbucks every morning before going to work, none on weekends, you will still pay something like $525/year for a morning cup of coffee. If you get a specialty coffee, like a latte, it comes to over $900/year. That’s a lot of money for coffee.
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