COFE+ Robot Cafe, Sold in 65 Countries, Debuts at Ulaanbaatar Chinggis Khaan Airport

At a Glance (China Coffee Network): Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia—When the main artery of the “Air Silk Road” meets the “24-hour café that never closes” that represents the future, the service formats of global transport hubs have reached a historic turning point.

A Cup of Coffee in 40 Seconds: Reshaping a New Service Paradigm for the Air Silk Road

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia—When the main artery of the “Air Silk Road” meets the “24-hour café that never closes” that represents the future, the service formats of global transport hubs have reached a historic turning point.

In May 2026, COFE+, the fully intelligent robot café hailed by the global coffee industry as the “all-around champion,” officially landed at Chinggis Khaan International Airport in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. This is not only another milestone after COFE+ entered dozens of international airports worldwide, but also marks the key node of the “Air Silk Road” formally stepping into a new era of “fully intelligent, fully automated, all-weather” services.

COFE+ robot cafe at Chinggis Khaan International Airport — Source: COFE+.

As the core hub of the “air corridor” connecting the Eurasian continent, Ulaanbaatar Airport’s annual passenger throughput keeps climbing, yet it has long been constrained by the structural contradiction between the high-latitude geography of a vast, sparsely populated land and the labor costs of the service industry. In the special airport setting of “high rent, high intensity, high demands,” traditional cafés often fall into the dilemma of “losing money in off-peak hours and congestion at peak hours.” The arrival of COFE+ has completely rewritten airport commerce and services.

Speed: One Cup in 40 Seconds, Faster and Stronger Than Humans

In an airport that runs 24 hours, what do travelers lack most? Time.

COFE+ is the fastest robot barista in the world. Measured data from the seventh-generation COFE+ shows that a single espresso takes only about 30 seconds, a cappuccino about 40 seconds, and a hand-crafted latte-art specialty coffee about one minute—1.5 to 2.5 times faster than industry peers and nearly twice as fast as the average human barista.

During peak hours of dense flight arrivals and departures, COFE+’s stable capacity of a thousand cups a day can serve dozens of travelers at once, thoroughly ending the wretched experience of “queueing half an hour and waiting ten minutes for coffee.” More crucially, it never closes, 24 hours a day—whether for the first flight at dawn or homebound travelers on the last flight late at night, anyone can get a freshly ground hot coffee at any time, something human-staffed airport cafés cannot do.

COFE+ robot barista preparing coffee — Source: COFE+.

Precision: 100% Replication of a Champion Barista’s Exquisite Craft

In the food industry, taste is king; whether it is delicious is what matters.

COFE+’s core technology is a “champion barista craft digitization system.” The R&D team precisely modeled hundreds of variables of the world’s top baristas—grind size, extraction time, water-temperature curves—and converted them into replicable algorithms, turning the precise water temperature of 92.5°C ±0.1°C and the golden extraction pressure of 9 bar ±0.2 bar into exact code, so that the taste error of every cup is nearly zero.

Judges of the World Coffee Championships have rated it “the only coffee robot that lets specialty beans bloom in their original flavor.” This means that, whether for travelers on the first flight at dawn or homebound passengers on the last flight late at night, what they enjoy is always cup after cup of specialty coffee surpassing human baristas, with no more quality fluctuations caused by a human barista’s fatigue, mood, or shift changes.

Breadth: 8 Major Categories, 300 Drinks, 5,000 Taste-Customization Parameters

An airport is a “miniature United Nations.” Travelers of different nationalities, skin colors, and dietary preferences have vastly different tastes. COFE+, equipped with a smart store brain, happens to excel precisely at this.

It carries 2 kinds of coffee beans, 2–4 milk bases (besides fresh milk, also including plant milks such as oat, almond, and coconut), 5 cup sizes, 6 water sources, 7 categories of nut powders and granules, and 8 syrups—flexible combinations that can freshly make more than 300 mainstream drinks in 8 major categories, including freshly ground coffee, Western-style milk tea, Japanese matcha, chocolate drinks, flavored milk drinks, plant-based drinks, yuan-yang blended drinks, and hot, cold, and iced beverages.

Even more stunning, it has a built-in library of signature taste recipes from 197 countries, supporting AI customization of “a thousand people, a thousand times, a thousand flavors”—with over 5,000 adjustable taste-customization parameters, everything from bean selection to strength, sweetness, temperature, latte art, and printed patterns can be adjusted at will. Want less ice, half sugar, oat milk, or decaf beans? One tap does it. Want to try Mongolian salty milk tea? COFE+ has that too. No matter which country you come from, you can always find that one cup that tastes of home.

Height: Fully Intelligent, Fully Remote-Controlled, Fully Green

The “one-tap, one-second remote intelligent control system” aboard COFE+ lets airport operators, through a single phone, complete full-process management of equipment-status monitoring, ingredient alerts, fault diagnosis, menu updates, and switching of audio, text, images, and video. 95% of faults can be diagnosed and repaired remotely; one employee can manage 10 machines; daily operation and maintenance need only 15 minutes of restocking, and a mere 30 minutes a day finishes all the work. For airport managers, this means no dedicated operations team is needed for the coffee format, and management costs fall sharply by 90% compared with the traditional model.

Even more impressive, it does not rely on industrial power; ordinary 220-volt household electricity drives it, with 3–5 kilowatts of power roughly equal to a home air conditioner—wastewater and waste residues are treated centrally, with zero noise, zero pollution, and zero cross-infection, making it green and eco-friendly; its flame-retardant, waterproof design means worry-free fire-safety compliance. It has become the most popular new species at global transport hubs, spread across nearly a hundred famous airports and railway stations on five continents.

COFE+ fully intelligent robot cafe — Source: COFE+.

Depth: The Technical Foundations of a “Decathlon” Champion

The “depth” of the seventh-generation COFE+ shows in its hardcore specifications:

· Beverage matrix. Based on a tailored combination of 2 coffee beans (commercial, competition, gold-award, or SOE specialty beans to choose from), 4 milk sources (dairy plus plant milk), 5 cup sizes, 8 syrups, 6 water types, and 7 nut powders and granules, under the command of its AI brain COFE+ can realize every kind of taste combination, supporting personalized customization across 8-plus dimensions including strength, sweetness, temperature, flavor, toppings, and caffeine content.

· Craft capabilities: a full repertoire of techniques—fresh grinding, hand-crafted latte art, 3D printing, hand-shaken series, layered fusion, yuan-yang fusion, AI taste customization, and adjustments of strength and body… bringing together all 10 major beverage-making processes.

· Superior food safety: ten hygiene technologies build a “green barrier.” COFE+ integrates multiple protective measures—dual ultraviolet and ozone sterilization, full-process high-temperature steam sterilization, air-filtration systems combined with airflow-isolation technology, complete physical isolation of the ingredient system, professional insect-proof and antibacterial technology, and a fully enclosed sterile, dust-free design—ensuring no cross-contamination and no bacterial growth throughout the entire preparation process.

· Design lifespan: over 10 years, with cumulative capacity exceeding 500,000 cups, validated through 100 different types of scenarios worldwide and about 5 million cups of real-world testing; under high-intensity operation of a thousand cups a day, output error is nearly zero—a metric far ahead of the industry.

In a high-latitude region like Ulaanbaatar, where winters are extremely severe (down to −30°C), summers are scorching, and day–night temperature swings polarize, COFE+’s full product line and all-climate adaptability—Southern outdoor edition, Northern outdoor edition, indoor edition, and counter edition—ensure there is always a COFE+ machine to guarantee stable operation for you all year round.

COFE+ robot cafe product line — Source: COFE+.

Warmth: Open 24 Hours, Specialty Coffee at Fair Prices Ever Since

An airport’s “warmth” is reflected in there still being a hot coffee when a late-night flight arrives. COFE+ supports 24-hour unattended operation, open 365 days a year. Whether travelers on “red-eye flights” arriving before dawn or passengers on early-morning departures, anyone can enjoy a freshly ground hot coffee at any time.

The prices are warm too. The ingredient cost of a cup of specialty coffee is only 2.5 to 5 yuan; average monthly electricity is about 300 yuan, network fees 20 yuan, and water just 12 yuan—with almost no labor cost or fit-out depreciation. In the airport, a “high-consumption venue,” COFE+ makes quality at fair prices a permanent reality.

Strength: A Thousand Cups a Day, Nearly Zero Error

COFE+ has stayed stable through real-world validation at more than 1,000 landmarks, 200 cities, and 65 countries across 5 continents. It remains unfazed even under extreme climates—from −20°C severe cold to +40°C scorching heat, force 10–12 typhoon rainstorms, and dust blown up from Middle Eastern deserts.

What does this mean for an airport? Airport environments are complex: large temperature swings, dense passenger flows, and long operating hours. With an output strength of “a thousand cups at nearly zero error,” COFE+ safeguards the dining welfare of arriving and departing travelers and further proves it is better suited than humans to working in high-intensity scenarios.

Force: Operating Costs Cut by 90%, Payback in as Fast as 4 Months

The airport supervisor did a clear calculation on the spot for the reporter: average ingredient cost per cup is 2.5–5 yuan, monthly water, electricity, and network communication fees are under 1,000 yuan, design and fit-out costs are nearly zero, and only 15 minutes of manual work a day is needed for restocking and cleaning—overall operating costs are cut by more than 90% compared with a traditional café.

In the airport scenario, selling 35 cups a day is enough to break even. At an average of 75 cups a day, a monthly profit margin of over 37% can be achieved. The investment payback period shortens to 4–8 months, far below the 2–3 years of a traditional café.

The best part: what if you pick the wrong location? COFE+ has its own wheels and can be moved at any time—placed in the international arrivals hall this month, it can be wheeled to the domestic departures hall next month. When the off-season comes, move it to a peak-season hotspot; wherever the crowds are, go there. The machine itself is a movable asset with no sunk fit-out costs—something the traditional food and beverage industry could scarcely imagine.

Width: The Only Global Certification Awarded “One Certificate, Travel the World”

An airport is one of the places with the strictest food-safety standards in the world. COFE+ is the world’s only beverage robot to simultaneously hold 15 major authoritative certifications from the United States, the European Union, the Commonwealth, Japan and South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere. In the U.S., the EU, and the Commonwealth of Independent States, it has passed rigorous airport food-safety access inspections, becoming the world’s only coffee robot to achieve “barrier-free access to airports worldwide.”

This certification system means that the COFE+ deployed at Ulaanbaatar Airport has a food-safety level fully identical to that of international hub airports such as New York, London, Tokyo, and Dubai. The combination of 10 major technologies—ultraviolet sterilization, ozone sterilization, high-temperature steam sterilization, and fully enclosed sterile, dust-free design—ensures output safety reaches the highest global standards.

Profound Significance: The “Light-Store Era” of Airport Services Has Begun

COFE+’s landing at Ulaanbaatar Airport is by no means a simple equipment installation, but a paradigm revolution in the service industry of global transport hubs.

For airports, it resolves a long-standing structural contradiction: how to provide uninterrupted, high-quality, profitable food and beverage service 24 hours a day inside a terminal where every inch of land is worth its weight in gold? COFE+ answers with the data of “occupying only a few square meters, producing a thousand cups a day, and turning a profit at 35 cups sold a day.”

For travelers, it means that no matter when they arrive, which terminal they are in, or whether the crowds are huge or sparse, they can enjoy Michelin-level specialty coffee at fair prices—no longer constrained by business hours, no longer limited by day or night, and no longer needing to worry about “being unable to buy coffee in the small hours or late at night.”

For the building of the Belt and Road Initiative and the “Air Silk Road,” COFE+’s deployment at this key node of Ulaanbaatar demonstrates the technological leadership of Chinese smart manufacturing in the field of service robots. To date, COFE+ has sold well in 65 countries and 24 provinces of China, covering more than 1,000 landmark scenarios. Its client list includes top institutions such as national ministries, the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, the Yan’an Executive Leadership Academy, the APEC Summit, the Davos Forum, the Asian Games headquarters, and Middle Eastern royal families; industry leaders such as Amazon, Google, SAP, Tesla, Harvard University, and Massachusetts General Hospital; and dozens of internationally renowned airports on five continents, such as airports in Belgium, the United States, Malaysia, Moldova, Shanghai, and Yunnan.

As an authority in the coffee industry has commented—COFE+ is “the world’s first light store,” “the coffee superman,” “the next-generation Starbucks,” and “the café that will never lose money in the future.” This cup from COFE+ carries humanity’s boundless longing for a better future life.

COFE+ robot coffee kiosk — Source: COFE+.

About COFE+

COFE+ is the world’s leading fully intelligent robot café brand. Its developer, Shanghai Heitun Robot Technology Co., Ltd., holds nearly 120 international invention patents, ranking first in the global industry in both patent count and market share. The company has been recognized as a high-tech enterprise, a “little giant” specialized in niche technologies, and a postdoctoral research workstation, and has repeatedly won top international awards. COFE+ is the world’s only beverage robot to have completed seven generations of iteration and to hold the most global authoritative certifications, and has sold well across 65 countries on 5 continents and 24 provinces in China.

Disclaimer: The content of this article is corporate information reprinted by this website and represents only the author’s personal views; it is unrelated to this site. The content involved does not constitute investment or consumption advice and is for readers’ reference only; please verify the relevant content yourself.

Originally reprinted from: Xinyang News Network.

Reprint Notice & Disclaimer: This article is reprinted from Xinyang News Network. All rights belong to the original publisher.