Customers at the San Francisco coffee shop don’t place their order with a cashier. And there’s no barista behind the counter to froth up cappuccinos, either. At Cafe X, a robot does all the work.
Instead of baristas, Cafe X employs a Mitsubishi 6-axis industrial robot that prepares and serves coffee as part of an entirely automated system. Customers order and purchase their specialty coffee either through on-site kiosks or a dedicated app, and the robotic arm compiles and delivers the beverage, entirely removing human interaction from the equation.
As one of the first fully mechanized coffee shops, Cafe X represents […]
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