Cafe X Technologies, an innovative firm, created the first ever robotic barista in the coffee industry. The CEO of the company realized that too many people wait in line for coffee everyday. About a year ago, they started creating a more efficient robot to do the work. That way, people can get their coffee in only a few minutes. The customer has the option to pick their drink, flavor, and intensity of it. From there, the robot, nicknamed Gordon, can make your drink with its robotic arm and can even dump it out if the drink is incorrect. The robotic barista was just released today and has averaged around 120 coffee drinks per hour. Although this robot only exists in San Francisco, the company hopes to bring this new technology to many more shopping complexes in the near future.
It's incredible how much technology can do for us these days. Just a little over a century ago, the Industrialization Era was in full swing in the United States. They created all sorts of new technology like steel for railroads, the telegraph, and the lightbulb. All these inventions helped with the advancement of society and allowed people to live more comfortable, just like how modern technology has done that for us. This article also addressed how this new technology could take away jobs from workers in the U.S. Luckily, Starbucks, one of the biggest coffee corporations in the world, is not planning on replacing their workers with robots. Overall, I think this article was super interesting to read about to see how advanced our society is really getting.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/01/30/robotic-barista-now-serving-really-fast/95888780/
Wow, this is really amazing and efficient. But it is scary that it could take away jobs. Hopefully they'll come up with a good medium.
ReplyDeleteI think that this technology is being wasted. Instead of using it to brew coffee, a mundane task, why not have this caliber of technology performing surgeries or other life saving operations. I think that our minds could be put to better use. If we thought of other people instead of our selfish ways, maybe we would be a better society.
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