Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Barista Bot is not just a robot making coffee. It is a fascinating experiment in how human craftsmanship can be translated into AI and robotics. In this episode of Trending Forward, Digital Trends founder Dan Gaul visits Muji in Portland to experience Artly’s robot barista firsthand and speak with champion barista Joe Yang and Artly executive David Qiu. The conversation explores how the Barista Bot learned latte art, precision brewing, and quality control directly from a world-class coffee expert, and what happens when automation is designed not to replace craftsmanship, but to preserve and scale it. The result is surprisingly personal, highly technical, and genuinely delicious.
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The Barista Bot is not just a robot making coffee. It is a fascinating experiment in how human craftsmanship can be translated into AI and robotics. In this episode of Trending Forward, Digital Trends founder Dan Gaul visits Muji in Portland to experience Artly’s robot barista firsthand and speak with champion barista Joe Yang and Artly executive David Qiu. The conversation explores how the Barista Bot learned latte art, precision brewing, and quality control directly from a world-class coffee expert, and what happens when automation is designed not to replace craftsmanship, but to preserve and scale it. The result is surprisingly personal, highly technical, and genuinely delicious.
Read the written version of this episode here: digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/this-robot-barista-is-trying-to-turn-championship-coffee-into-a-scalable-business
Learn more about Artly: https://artly.coffee/pages/about-artly
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