Image courtesy of Intel Corp.
Dec. 30, 2020
Patrons at Crown Coffee, a coffee bar in downtown Singapore, can now place orders and be served by an autonomous robot barista named Ella, according to a press release.
Named after the wife of Crown Coffee s CEO and founder Keith Tan, Ella is a six-axis robot that runs on a constellation of Intel parts: an Intel Movidius vision processing unit, the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit and Intel Xeon and Intel Core processors. Ella takes orders remotely via an online app, makes the coffee, notifies the customer when it s ready, serves it and charges the customer s credit card.