The quality of your coffee may soon be determined by a robot

A shift to computers would upend the traditional way coffee has been graded by humans, known as cupping. — Pixabay

The days of experts gathering in a sealed-off room to sip coffee and grade beans on their colour, aroma and taste may be numbered.

Demetria, a Colombian-Israeli company developed an artificial intelligence data platform that can determine the quality of beans when used with hand-held sensors. The machine will need a human to input the quality parameters first, but after that, it will be able to classify coffee before it’s even roasted. The company has completed a pilot programme with Carcafe, the Colombian division of Volcafe, one of the world’s largest coffee traders.