On a recent trip to Keukenhof, the Netherlands, I was struck by the crowd gathered around a windowed box. I had sort of assumed that it contained some rare plant, given where we were, but in fact, it was Ella, the Robot Barista. Ella is, apparently, able to “brew more than 300 coffee combinations at 200 cups per hour” using data, Robotics and, of course, AI.
Here she is in action: