A cafe in Melbourne has debuted its own robot barista. The robot in question is dubbed Rocky and it belongs to a local cafe called Once Alike.
Now we should point out that robot baristas aren’t new per se because earlier this year, a cafe in San Francisco called Cafe X launched its own robot barista.
However as Broadsheet points out, the difference is that Cafe X’s robot is more of an arm that fetches cups made by an automated coffee machine, whereas Rocky acts more like a full-fledged barista.
In the video above, you can see Rocky grind beans, tamp them, and even pull espresso shots.
It can then pour the drinks into a cup to go, cap it, and be ready for its next order. Unfortunately the downside to Rocky is that it takes anywhere between 2-6 minutes to make a single cup, longer than the average barista would take, a much longer for a more experienced barista.
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