Coffee Service

Robotic coffeemaker manufacturer Artly raises $8M

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September 27, 2022

Artly, a manufacturer of an AI enabled robotic coffeemaker, has secured an $8 million investment round, according to a press release.

Artly is designed to use robotics, computer vision and deep learning to produce a quality cup of coffee every time.

The company opened its first location in May 2021 in Portland, Oregon. Since then, it has opened three more California Bay Area locations. More recently, it opened the first location in its home town, Seattle, Washington, near Pike Place Market.

The units have been placed in unattended retail locations.

"With the help of advanced AI technologies such as imitation learning and vision-language generative models, our robots can now adapt to new environments and carry out complex and ambiguous tasks," Meng Wang, CEO, said in the press release. "A much wider audience can now enjoy the creation of a skilled barista, losslessly, just as what recorders and speakers are to a singer or printers to a writer or painter."