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Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk at San Francisco Bay Area

Vision-guided robotic coffee kiosk (Jarvis arm) making hot/cold espresso drinks. Honest status: after closing downtown SF retail (2020), now operates primarily at airports (SFO, SJC) and B2B sites.

Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk by Cafe X · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified


Machine-readable surfaces

Footage

PRIMARY SOURCE
Courtesy of Cafe X

Cafe X's footage of its second-generation robotic coffee kiosk, where a robotic arm hands off cups around automated espresso machines. The arm motion is largely scripted pick-and-place from fixed positions, not vision-guided food manipulation.

Cafe X self-operates robotic coffee kiosks at San Francisco International Airport in Terminals 1 and 3, representing its current public locations following the 2020 closure of its downtown San Francisco stores.

Key facts

Operator
Cafe X (self-operated)
Site
San Francisco International Airport (SFO), Terminals 1 and 3
Use
Robotic coffee kiosks; current public locations after the 2020 downtown retraction

Safety record

No incidents on record for Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk at San Francisco Bay Area.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Trust tier
Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
Last updated
2026-07-10
Company
Cafe X
Status
operational
Operator type
maker operated
ID
cf6a410c-3926-4edb-9b4d-2aa6fcc4acde

Timeline

  1. Jun 2026
    created
  2. Jul 2026
    Current status: operational, reviewed
    Latest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.

On the deployment map

Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk operates in San Francisco Bay Area. Explore the full verified map:

Sources (2)

  1. https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/robotic-coffee-startup-cafe-x-shutters-stores-pivots-to-airports/
  2. https://thespoon.tech/cafe-x-shuts-down-its-three-downtown-san-francisco-locations/
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-10

Verification posture

Verified

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-07-10

Maturity + lifecycle

Maturity stage: commercial

Lifecycle: active

Architectural position

Cohort: food_service

Sources by quality tier

2
unclassified
Unclassified source

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Methodology surface for Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk at San Francisco Bay Area.

Common questions

What is the Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk deployment at San Francisco Bay Area?
Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk, built by Cafe X, is recorded as a deployment at San Francisco Bay Area on the DEPLOY registry. Cafe X operates the deployment directly.
Who operates Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk at San Francisco Bay Area?
Cafe X, the manufacturer of Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
Have there been incidents at the Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk deployment at San Francisco Bay Area?
No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.

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