Re:A $33K robot barista serves 120 cups of coffee an hour
by crispyambulance on Thursday March 14, 2019 @09:56AM
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Yeah, they did pick up the IP of one of the most disastrous kick-starters ever.
It seems plausible, you know, that someone could make a machine like that, but at the end of the day it's all about the espresso head and quality of the build.
By the time they figured it out, I think, they were no better than well-established prosumer models in price and performance.
The problem is that Nespresso already exists, and is good for 95% of the market. The rest of the 5% of espresso aficionados demand tons of features that are not cheap to produce, and the market is inherently not that big. There are machines like https://decentespresso.com/overview (I believe they picked up the IP of an infamously undelivered Kickstarter) and https://www.breville.com/us/en/products/espresso/bes980.html