The latest development of the coffee industry: robot baristas are no longer legends. Which is more advantageous?

Robots will take over the world?

Not yet, but these robots have occupied some areas. In the auto industry, for example, no one will buy a fully manual car.

As the world becomes more and more mechanized, many problems follow. Can machines really replace humans? There is no doubt about their efficiency, accuracy and automation, but are humans really useless?

When robots begin to intervene in people's daily lives, will baristas around the world worry about it? After all, making a cup of coffee is much easier than building a car.

Can a robot make a perfect cup of coffee?

It will depend on what makes a cup of coffee different, art or science?

Like most people, I believe that a good cup of handmade coffee is irreplaceable. Coffee beans from different regions, a variety of different extraction methods, coupled with unique coffee art, can be called "perfect"! Those baristas who carve coffee with "love" can always attract countless coffee lovers to taste their masterpieces.

Robots can do this?

Even the best baristas say that science after art, from coffee beans to extraction, every step has to be repeatedly hypothesized, tested, recorded and summarized. Recently, the University of Bath and the British coffee champion have found that it is better to extract coffee with water rich in magnesium.

Some people think that Niu X baristas must have a copy of the Guihua Book of Coffee making in his head. Even if they tell the robot about this book, can they really copy it?

Baristas and machines: can they coexist?

In the future, maybe machines will replace baristas, but not completely. In fact, they can do half the work for you, such as Poursteady1.0 (it even sounds like a robot).

When you have an one-meter-long coffee order to do, the machine can really make you a lot easier. Automatic water filling devices like Poursteady 1. 0 allow you to make five times as much coffee at a time (not tired!). By controlling the tedious water injection steps by machine, you can save more time and concentrate on improving grinding and powder distribution.

"Coffee extraction is a game about time and water temperature, so we use machines to control these two variables."

-Mark Sabona, co-founder of Poursteady

Poursteady 1. 0: will this be the future of coffee?

Human VS Machine: can machines replace us?

Pourstrady's team has made it clear that they are only assisting baristas in the task of filling water. But what if they further develop their products? what will the robots of the coffee industry look like in 10 years? More business will be automated?

Some people have begun to play with the concept of "fully automatic barista". Robot researchers at Cornell University have developed a robot called "Robot barista" that can make a complete cup of coffee. They claim that "robot baristas" can even learn how to operate machines and can learn online through the Amazon platform. It's pretty advanced, isn't it?

Kawada Industries believes that robot baristas will be common in the next few years. No sleep, no training, no payroll, no reason for cafe owners to refuse.

A working robot barista who has learned to make lattes.

For the average consumer, these robot baristas seem a long way off. At present, a more realistic situation is that there will be more and more "baristas" of vending machines. Think of Costa's 4000 + fast coffee machines!

For professional coffee controllers, a similar machine is Briggo, which can place an order through APP and take it away when the machine is ready. It's hard to compete with high-end cafes, but the machine has been trained by award-winning barista Patrick Pierce. Measure the temperature of the extracted water, keep the water pressure stable, and monitor the changes in foam. This product is now a microcosm of the omnipotent robot cafe.

Briggo: omnipotent robot coffee kiosk

The key question: do people really want a robot barista?

Ignoring whether robot baristas can replace us, do people really want them? The truth at present is that customers don't like machines. Their creepy faces and mechanical movements don't look like a local cafe. Isn't there even a friendly smile in the cafe?

What's more, the coffee made by robots is not very good. The slogan of the Costa fast coffee machine is "I don't believe there are no baristas in this machine." Haha, this shows that people are better than machines. Machine-made drinks are not very good after all.

Would you like to see something like this every morning?

On the other hand, it is certainly possible for a robot to act as an assistant to a skilled barista. Poursteady helps baristas quickly inject water to extract coffee, and it remains to be seen whether it can do more automated business (rumors of version 2.0 are already in production).

For now, the "Sunflower Book" of making a unique cup of coffee is still firmly in the hands of human beings, and smiling greetings with guests coming from afar is more important than ever before, making your cafe more personal. let the robot enter without a hole!

If robots did replace all the jobs of baristas, what would you do? Quit and open a coffee shop? Open a Taobao shop to sell robots? Or switch to robot training?

‍‍‍‍ Source | Coffee Room

Author | T. Dewhurst of Ordable

Original text | ‍ www.perfectdaily.com