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Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk

Vision-guided robotic coffee kiosk (Jarvis arm) making hot/cold espresso drinks.

Manufacturer
Cafe X
Form factor
food_service
Maturity
commercial
Lifecycle
active
Deployments
1

Overview

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.

Verified vs. claimed

Maturity stage
commercial(Commercially deployed with revenue-generating operations.)
Verified deployments
1 deployment on file
Sources on file
2 sources, view all

Key facts

Robot

Vision-guided robotic coffee kiosk using a Jarvis arm

Scale

Closed its three downtown San Francisco retail kiosks in January 2020

Product

Robotic coffee kiosk with automated arm

Funding

5M seed (Khosla) + 12M+ venture

Pivot

From retail stores to airports

Specs

Task

coffee / espresso

Autonomy

robotic arm + computer-vision quality check

Availability

commercial (airports / B2B)

Autonomy type

vision-guided

Data & sources

Web sources

2

2 sources backing this record.View all →

Pricing

No verified price is on record for Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk. Physical-AI systems are often sold through enterprise contracts or operated as a service rather than at a public list price.

Deployments (1)

  • 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.

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Recent activity

Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.

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Deployment-verified media (1)

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.

From deployment: San Francisco Bay Area

Supply chain (1)

Mechanical / contract manufacturing

Suppliers appear here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.

Safety record

No incidents on record for Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk.

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

Sources (2)

  1. https://thespoon.tech/cafe-x-shuts-down-its-three-downtown-san-francisco-locations/
  2. https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/robotic-coffee-startup-cafe-x-shutters-stores-pivots-to-airports/

Common questions

What is Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk?
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.
How much does Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk cost?
Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk's price is not publicly disclosed. DEPLOY has no verified price on record for Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk from Cafe X. Physical-AI systems like this are often sold through enterprise contracts or operated as a service rather than at a public list price; check the manufacturer for the latest.
Is Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk actually deployed in the real world?
Yes. Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk is independently verified in real-world operation on the DEPLOY registry, confirmed at named deployment sites with primary sources: not a concept, render, or demo-only.
Who makes Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk?
Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk is made by Cafe X, based in San Francisco, CA, USA, founded in 2014.
Where is Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk deployed?
1 verified deployment of Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk is on the DEPLOY registry, including at San Francisco Bay Area.
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-12

Verification posture

Verified

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-07-12

Maturity + lifecycle

Maturity stage: commercial

Lifecycle: active

Architectural position

Cohort: food_service

Sources by quality tier

2
unclassified
Unclassified source

The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.

Methodology surface for Cafe X Robotic Coffee Kiosk.