Demand for service robots set to 'explode' in China


OrionStar's latest robot barista can make a cup of pour-over coffee in three minutes. - ST

BEIJING (The Straits Times/ANN): With the push of a button, the big white robot lights up, and its spindly arms spring to life, grinding coffee beans and boiling a flask of hot water.

It takes 261 individual movements and three minutes for the Robotic Coffee Master -- which resembles a Michelin man but with unusually long arms -- to brew a cup of pour-over coffee.

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