Xianglu Fresh Coffee Ark Powers JD Qixian Smart Unmanned Store to Guinness World Record

Brief (coffeeyo.com): On August 16, JD’s Qixian Coffee smart unmanned store debuted at Beijing’s Galaxy SOHO and completed a 24-hour robot livestream challenge for a Guinness World Record, achieving “202 cups served in one hour.” Xianglu Robotics’ self-developed AI fully-automated beverage workstation — the Fresh Coffee Ark — served as the store’s core production system.

On August 16, JD’s Qixian Coffee smart unmanned store officially debuted at Beijing’s Galaxy SOHO and completed a 24-hour robot livestream challenge for a Guinness World Record, achieving “202 cups served in one hour.”

In this challenge, the Fresh Coffee Ark — an AI fully-automated beverage workstation independently developed by Xianglu Robotics — participated as the store’s core production system, helping JD’s Qixian Coffee complete the challenge smoothly. This was not only the first launch of a new business format for JD’s Qixian smart unmanned coffee store, but also an important scenario validation of Xianglu’s “Robot + Food” capability extending from “food” to “drinks.”

JD Qixian Coffee smart unmanned store at Galaxy SOHO

One workstation completes the drink-production loop from order to serving

In JD’s Qixian smart unmanned coffee store, the Fresh Coffee Ark takes on the core process of drink making and serving.

Starting from the user’s order, the Fresh Coffee Ark autonomously completes the full process of cup dropping, ice dropping, ingredient dosing, making, quality inspection, packing and finally serving, finishing a single drink in about 20 seconds.

The Fresh Coffee Ark AI beverage workstation in operation

The Fresh Coffee Ark is not just an automatic coffee machine, nor a showpiece coffee robot, but a truly store-operations-oriented AI fully-automated beverage workstation.

For freshly made drink formats such as coffee and tea, what a store really faces is not merely “can it make a drink,” but whether it can sustain stable, efficient and standardized cup output in real operation.

Peak orders, personalized tastes, output consistency, refill inspection and contactless delivery all place higher demands on the store’s production system.

The value of the Fresh Coffee Ark lies precisely in handing the high-frequency, repetitive and standardized steps of drink production to the system, letting AI and robots truly enter the store’s production flow.

From “able to make” to “able to operate”: robots enter real stores

Robots entering the food-and-beverage industry has long been easily understood as “cool display” or “single-action substitution.”

But the test of a real store is not only whether a machine can complete a certain action, but whether it can run stably and efficiently over the long term and truly serve the daily operation of branded stores.

Fresh Coffee Ark powering the unmanned store scenario

What Xianglu’s “Fresh Coffee Ark” helps JD’s Qixian smart unmanned coffee store present is precisely an exploration of a new business format for future drink stores: 24-hour operation; fully robotic making; contactless delivery; multi-category drink supply; personalized parameter adjustment; and intelligent cup output with store fulfillment.

In this scenario, the Fresh Coffee Ark is the core component of the smart unmanned store’s production system. It helps the store automate and systematize the drink-making chain after ordering, and also lets coffee and tea brands see new possibilities in peak cup output, standardized making, reduced-staff operation and store-efficiency improvement.

From AI cooking robots to AI fully-automated beverage workstations

Xianglu Robotics has long focused on the “Robot + Food” track, continuously pushing AI, robotics and automated production capabilities into real food-service scenarios.

Previously, through its AI cooking robots, Xianglu served multiple scenarios such as Chinese-hot-kitchen, group meals, hotels and chain restaurants, continuously accumulating understanding of dish craftsmanship, digital recipes, equipment control, food production and store operations.

Xianglu Robotics Robot + Food capabilities

The success of the Fresh Coffee Ark in helping JD’s Qixian smart unmanned coffee store challenge the Guinness World Record also means Xianglu is replicating its AI and robotics capabilities — validated in real food-service scenarios — from “food” to “drinks”: from one scenario to more scenarios, from one product type to more categories, from the food-service back kitchen to the drink store.

Xianglu Robotics is continuously expanding the boundaries of “Robot + Food,” letting AI and robots truly enter the core of food production and step into real life.

Source: Xianglu Robotics.

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