{"id":35088,"date":"2017-03-05T20:42:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T04:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/this-robot-barista-is-faster-than-a-human-and-it-just-started-work-in-san-fran"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:10:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:10:14","slug":"this-robot-barista-is-faster-than-a-human-and-it-just-started-work-in-san-fran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/this-robot-barista-is-faster-than-a-human-and-it-just-started-work-in-san-fran","title":{"rendered":"This Robot Barista Is Faster Than a Human, and It Just Started Work in San Fran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T5GXK1onZWc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/carla.schab>Carla Rivas Schab<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Gordon is a robotic arm that serves coffee in a San Francisco shopping complex. It\u2019s the first robotic barista in the U.S., and it could serve about 120 coffees in an hour. \u201cA lot of us spend a lot of time in line waiting for coffee,\u201d Henry Hu, CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/cafexapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cafe X Technologies<\/a>, the local start-up that created the robot, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/2017\/01\/30\/robotic-barista-now-serving-really-fast\/95888780\/\" target=\"_blank\">tells <em>USA Today<\/em><\/a>. \u201cAnd we decided to do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cafe X Technologies built a toll-booth sized stall to house Gordon, and customers can approach the stall or order via a mobile app. Gordon can serve seven drinks, including espressos and cafe lattes, for about $2.25 to $2.95 per 8-ounce cup. This system won\u2019t get your name wrong, either. After choosing their type of drink, flavor, and intensity of flavor, customers enter a mobile number to get a four-digit code and then pay. When their drink is ready, they receive a text message.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/this-robot-barista-is-faster-than-a-human-and-it-just-started-work-in-san-fran\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/this-robot-barista-is-faster-than-a-hum...-san-fran\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carla Rivas Schab Gordon is a robotic arm that serves coffee in a San Francisco shopping complex. It\u2019s the first robotic barista in the U.S., and it could serve about 120 coffees in an hour. \u201cA lot of us spend a lot of time in line waiting for coffee,\u201d Henry Hu, CEO of Cafe X [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58494,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35088\/revisions\/58494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}