Recent news about a Singapore start-up building robot baristas must have captured the imagination of coffee lovers here.
Certainly it points to a future with more widespread automation in the labour intensive food and beverage sector. This innovation could not be more timely, with the seemingly interminable pandemic and the grim advisories about how human interaction enables transmission.
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