The Javabot Combines Engineering and Coffee

WormholeFiend writes "The Javabot is the coffee machine of the future — completely next generation. It is the fully-automated system that runs the Roasting Plant Coffee Company in New York and its design is illustrative of what can be achieved using new thinking and methodologies to something that was previously regarded as a black art. The system is part of the experience because the coffee system runs throughout the shop. It's the first walk-in coffee machine in effect, and customers sit there and watch as their coffee beans rush past in pneumatic tubes, as they move from storage bins to staging, roasting station, grinding and a brewing machine where they are dispensed with the repeatable accuracy of a purpose-built machine. Customers can choose from any blend of seven different beans and every aspect of the process is controlled."

Re:No roast on demand

[Overzeetop]

I thought out-gassing was what happened in a vacuum, and off-gassing is what occurred within an atmosphere.

FWIW, Sharpie marks don't out-gas once dry (an odd bit of trivia you may need when deciding what to use if you every want to tag anything on the space shuttle)

Re:Low tech is better than high in things coffee

[Hatta]

Go lower tech, and even tastier with a French press [coffeegeek.com]. Do mind the cafestol [wisegeek.com] though.

unwise

[Anonymous Coward]

Eliminating all human labor is unwise and ultimately self-destructive. Delegating "black arts" to highly reproducible mechanical processes goes against esthetics and homogenizes into blandness the infinitely variable human process it replaces.

This is all just shallow thinking to maximize short-term profits. In that sense, it is just plain dumb, albeit in a spectacular bling-blingy sort of way.

Re:Cubicle?

[Ctrl-Z]

Is there a way to do that without annoying half the people on my floor?

Doesn't go far enough

[hcdejong]

If it were my coffee shop, I'd build a Rube Goldberg contraption instead of some dull, straightforward machine.

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