Editor's note: From "heavy stores" to "light stores", a coffee industry revolution initiated by Shanghai helium dolphins is sweeping the globe.
When Europe, the birthplace of modern coffee, welcomes an all-around champion from the East; When robot cafes quietly appear on the streets of New York, Paris, and London that are open 24 hours a day; When a high-quality latte with a personal photo 3D printed can still make a profit for only 9.7 yuan – the world finally realizes that a new industrial revolution driven by artificial intelligence has irreversibly arrived.
The fully intelligent coffee robot COFE+, developed by the globally renowned Shanghai He Fen Robot Technology Co., Ltd., has been sold in 65 countries across 5 continents and 24 provinces in China for less than a year since its official launch at the Milan International Hotel Supplies Exhibition in 2025. It has landed in over 200 international cities and thousands of landmarks, leading the industry and far ahead. This new species, known as the "Tesla of the coffee industry," is announcing to the world with its disruptive technological breakthroughs, product innovation, business revolution, and market disruption that the global real economy has entered a new era of "light stores.
Technological breakthrough: Coffee robots surpass human baristas for the first time
The success of COFE+is not simply the replacement of human hands with robotic arms, but a thorough digital reconstruction of the entire coffee making process. As the coffee robot with the most international patents worldwide, COFE+holds over 120 international patents and more than 1200 technical know-how, with a total patent count equivalent to the sum of the second to fifth positions in the industry.
COFE+AI intelligent store brain, making every drop precise and controllable. The AI system equipped in the sixth generation can accurately control the amount of ingredients used, automatically adjust more than 300 key parameters such as extraction pressure, water flow rate, grinding thickness, and milk foam size. This means that whether it's precise water temperature control up to 92.5 ° C ± 0.1 ° C or gold extraction pressure of 9 bar ± 0.2 bar, COFE+can convert variables into precise and controllable digital codes.
COFE+recreates coffee champion craftsmanship, making every cup Michelin starred. We use artificial intelligence to learn and digitize the craftsmanship and experience of human coffee champions into a series of codes, "explained engineer Huang from COFE+." We scientifically transform the menu formulas of chain coffee shops into individual parameters. "After more than 100 scenarios and up to 5 million cups of real-world testing worldwide, COFE+has achieved three major breakthroughs: 100% perfect replication of the craftsmanship of human coffee champions, 100% taste comparable to world-class coffee shops, and 100% reproduction of the flagship flavors of 197 countries around the world.
After tasting, the judge of the World Coffee Competition, Mr. He, gave high praise: "This is the only coffee robot that can make premium coffee beans' original flavor bloom ', with a taste comparable to the world's top baristas." COFE+'s movements are highly precise, standardized, and stable, and its products no longer vary from person to person or time to time. It is the world's first coffee robot to achieve nearly zero deviation in daily production of thousands of cups, surpassing human professional baristas for the first time and setting a new global benchmark.
Product innovation: Robot coffee shops completely surpass human coffee shops
If precise taste is the fundamental skill, then COFE+'s innovation in user experience is a "dimensionality reduction blow" to traditional coffee shops. The sixth generation COFE+is the world's first all-around champion that integrates "fresh freshly ground+handmade latte art+3D printing+flavor customization", achieving a generational leap from "selling coffee" to "creating scenes".
The cups are freshly ground, hand drawn, and 3D printed, making each cup a work of art. COFE+not only uses biomimetic robotic arms to outline exquisite floral patterns such as roses, tulips, and thousand layered hearts like a "divine pen", but also achieves breakthrough high-resolution 3D printing on milk foam. Consumers' personal photos, corporate logos, scenic spots, or personalized phrases can all be transformed into edible "milk foam art" in just a few seconds. At the APEC summit, attendees customized latte with their own national flag and meeting date on their mobile phones; In Japanese tourist attractions, tourists can print the scenery of Mount Fuji; At Hilton hotels, employees can print welcome messages and logos – every cup of coffee becomes a unique IP cultural creation, achieving something that human cafes cannot.
Customized cup and cup flavors, catering to the preferences of thousands of people. COFE+is equipped with an advanced flavor customization system, which uses a flexible combination of 2 coffee beans, various types of fresh dairy products, multiple syrups, multiple nut powders, and multiple water sources. It can produce 8 categories of beverages including freshly ground coffee, Western style milk tea, Japanese matcha, plant-based drinks, chocolate drinks, flavored milk drinks, and specialty ice drinks. It can also customize more than 350 fully personalized flavors from concentration, sweetness, temperature, flavor to cup size to meet the different needs of different consumers.
Global flavor think tank, travel around and taste the world in one cup. The sixth generation COFE+can also remember thousands of top-notch beverage formulas from 197 countries and cities around the world, and update them in real-time with network connectivity. With powerful software and hardware configuration, thousands of parameters can be scheduled at any time to complete the production of new flavors. New menus are available every day, and new drinks can be introduced every week. On Mondays, you can enjoy the richness of New York; on Tuesdays, you can taste the richness of Milan; on Wednesdays, you can taste the delicacy of Tokyo; and on Thursdays, you can enjoy the romance of Paris – allowing you to taste the world without leaving your home.
Digital servers make technology full of "fireworks". Unlike traditional robots that have a cold and icy feeling, COFE+is the only coffee robot in the world that has developed virtual waiter functionality and achieved intelligent human-machine interaction. It can imitate human waiters and warmly welcome customers with voice commands in 197 languages including Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, etc. It provides detailed introductions of new products and promotional activities, and even supports voice intelligent ordering. As soon as you placed your order, you received a prompt: Your hot American style is being made, please pay attention to preventing scalding when picking up the meal "- Service details make technology full of humanity. At this moment, coffee is no longer just about the temperature of the drink, but also has emotional depth and humanistic demeanor.
Business Disruption: Say Goodbye to the Century of "Heavy Stores" and Enter the Era of "Light Stores"
The core revolution brought by COFE+is to completely transform coffee shops from the traditional model of "heavy assets, heavy management, and high risk" to a new species of "lightweight, light operation, and zero risk". The disruptive nature of its business model is enough to reshuffle the entire global industry.
In traditional coffee shops, rent, labor, and energy costs typically account for over 60% of total revenue. And COFE+significantly reduces the break even point through unmanned operation and precise consumption control. A customer calculated that even if they sell a cup of Guixia boutique estate coffee at an affordable price of 9.7 yuan, they can still maintain a gross profit margin of over 60%. This means that a COFE+is a money printing machine that never loses money.
Ten zeros and five poles, the light store model has arrived. Compared to traditional human cafes that are clumsy, heavy, and slow, COFE+robot cafes have zero labor, zero training, zero decoration, zero shops, zero loss, zero closure, zero waste, zero pollution, zero certification, and zero infection. This groundbreaking light store model can be summarized as the "Five Extremes":
·Minimalist operation (only requires 15 minutes of daily replenishment and maintenance)
·Ultimate floor area efficiency (occupying only 2.35 square meters)
·Ultimate lifespan (using for 10 years and producing over 500000 cups)
·Extremely low loss (saving over 90% of costs)
·Extremely high return (selling only a few dozen cups per day can break even)
One person managing ten stores can greatly disrupt operational efficiency. COFE+'s daily continuous production capacity has exceeded 1000 cups, with almost zero error fluctuations. The 5-cup parallel production algorithm has made the production efficiency three times that of traditional coffee shops. A single addition can continuously produce over 300 cups, and daily maintenance only takes 15 minutes. What is even more revolutionary is its remote intelligent management system: operators can complete the entire process of power on/off, menu updates, formula adjustments, advertising placement, etc. through a mobile phone, monitor raw material consumption, sales data, equipment status in real time, and even warn of machine failures. One mobile phone manages one store, and one employee manages 10 machines, resulting in a 90% reduction in operating costs
Green and sustainable development, a new benchmark for environmental protection. COFE+adopts 95% recyclable or reusable materials, and all waste residue, wastewater, and waste materials are centrally and professionally treated to achieve almost zero pollution; Both electronic hazard control and product scrap recycling meet the strictest standards in Europe, America, and Japan, earning the nickname of the "green giant" in the coffee industry. The annual water and electricity expenses are only equivalent to half a month's consumption of traditional stores, and the monthly communication expenses are only a few tens of yuan – such energy conservation and emission reduction are fully in line with the global trend of sustainable development.
As Han Feizi, the founder of Shanghai He Fen Technology, said, "COFE+eliminates the risk of location selection when opening a store, eliminates the troubles of off-season in operation, eliminates the hard work of service, and makes consumption priceless and affordable. ”
Market Innovation: Bestsellers in 65 countries, sparks are igniting the prairie fire
While traditional coffee shops are still struggling with rent, labor, and training, COFE+has opened the door to future opportunities with its "light store model" – selling well in 65 countries and attracting global landmarks.
As of now, COFE+'s business has covered over 65 countries and regions across five continents, and has landed in thousands of landmark scenes worldwide. From Denver Airport in the United States to Kuala Lumpur Airport in Malaysia, from French shopping malls to Australian shopping malls, from the Central Party School to Davos Forum, from the Terra Cotta Warriors, the Bund of Shanghai to Yungang Grottoes – COFE+has become the preferred brand of the world's top 500 and China's top 500 enterprises, with customers including Amazon, Sodexo SAP、Google、 Leading companies in various industries such as Sinopec, China Mobile, and Bank of China.
Global authoritative certification, one certificate for the world. COFE+is the only coffee robot in the world that has obtained eight authoritative quality certifications from the United States, European Union, Commonwealth, Middle East, Japan and South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and is also the only coffee robot issued with a food safety certificate by the US FDA. COFE+has achieved the goal of "one certificate for the world" in various parts of China, eliminating the need for duplicate certification and clearing certification barriers for rapid deployment.
Cracking the problem of globalization and making the world a global village: Dr. Han Feizi, founder of COFE+, said frankly: "The overseas environment is very complex. Communication, payment, consumer habits, taste systems, and raw material systems are all very different, and the road to going global is not smooth. After three years of hard work, COFE+has fully achieved global compatibility in payment, communication, and taste.
In terms of payment systems, COFE+is the first company in the industry to solve global payment problems – from European and American bank cards, to African banknotes, to Southeast Asian mobile payments, COFE+integrates multiple payment systems to meet the payment habits of different countries and regions.
In terms of environmental adaptability, COFE+indoor version, outdoor version, bar version, counter version and other series of products are adapted to the electricity and voltage of various countries and integrated into local communication networks. Through thermal insulation technology and temperature control design, it can perfectly adapt to the climate difference between the south and the north. It can still operate normally even in a level 12 typhoon, exposure to rainstorm, extreme cold at minus 20 degrees Celsius or high temperature at 45 degrees Celsius.
65 countries are not transcripts, but declarations of a new way of life for the future
From Milan to New York, from Tokyo to Dubai, from Penang to Prague – COFE+sixth generation coffee robots are spreading around the world. This is not just a coffee revolution, but also an infinite possibility for artificial intelligence to transform traditional industries.
Disruptive new species, leading future trends. COFE+has been hailed as a "representative of the new economy" by Xinhua News Agency, CCTV, and The Wall Street Journal. It is not only a new achievement of technological innovation, but also a future vision of the deep integration of artificial intelligence and the real economy. Since 2021, COFE+has completed 5 consecutive rounds of venture capital investment both domestically and internationally, making it the company with the most financing rounds and the largest amount in the global coffee robot market, far ahead.
COFE+is popular in 65 countries, setting not only a milestone in the industry, but also the starting line for the new industrial revolution. The world's first light store is starting from China and reshaping the global service industry for the next century.
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