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This Coffee-Making Robot Is the World’s Worst Barista

Say hello to Nextage, the robot ready and willing to impress this year’s Japan Robot Week visitors with its mad barista skills. Kawanda Industries figured the best way to showcase its robotics range would be to program one to make everybody coffee, and while Nextage’s pincered robo-claws are certainly precise, they are definitely slow: Here it concocts and hands off a Nespresso with milk and sugar in, well, three minutes. We’re not sure what’s more demoralizing, the pod coffee our robo-overlords want us to drink, or the jazzy tune we’re forced to listen to while robo-barista putters along with our beverage.

[Daily Coffee News]

This Coffee-Making Robot Is the World’s Worst Barista