COFE+ Unveils World’s First 6th Generation Robotic Cafe at WAIC 2025

Shanghai, July 26, 2025 — The 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2025) officially kicked off in Shanghai from July 26 to 29, under the theme “Intelligent Connectivity for the Shared Future.” This year’s event gathers global thought leaders in artificial intelligence, including 12 Nobel Prize and Turing Award winners, over 80 academicians from China and abroad, and more than 1,200 top tech innovators.

Among the event’s most anticipated participants is Shanghai Hi-Dolphin Robot Technology Co., Ltd., a company that holds over 100 patents, has received multiple national-level honors, including “Top 30 AI Application Enterprises in China” and “Top 50 Service Robots in China,” and is repeatedly recognized among the world’s leading robot coffee maker Manufacturers. At WAIC 2025, the company is showcasing its flagship innovation: the world’s first 6^th generation fully intelligent robotic coffee shop—COFE+.

A New Generation of Global Coffee Champion Is Born

The debut of COFE+ 6^th Generation at WAIC marks a historic leap in the practical application of AI in the consumer economy. On-site, journalists experienced the groundbreaking performance of the world’s first coffee robot to reach this level of iteration and intelligence. The COFE+ High Quality robotic coffee kiosk delivers drinks with greater precision, standardization, speed, cleanliness, consistency, and variety than any human barista:

· Every cup of coffee features freshly handcrafted latte art.

· Every cup of coffee can be personalized to your favorite flavor.

· Every cup of coffee can be made with high-quality hot, cold, or iced foam.

· Every cup of coffee can be 3D-printed with images, logos, photos or texts.
· Every cup of coffee can replicate local coffee flavors from 197 countries and cities.
· Every cup of coffee rivals the quality of world-class specialty cafés.

For the first time in history, AI has fully surpassed human baristas, and robotic cafés are beginning to outshine traditional ones. The 6^th Generation of COFE+ is not only a technological marvel but a declaration of a new global revolution in coffee service—one that redefines what the Top robot coffee shops of the next 30 years will look like.

The World’s First 6^th-Gen Robotic Coffee System Officially Announced

At the WAIC 2025 forum, Shanghai Hi-Dolphin officially unveiled six innovative formats of its 6th-generation COFE+ robotic café: (1) Coffee Robot Counter; (2) Coffee Robot Bar; (3) Indoor Coffee Robot Kiosk; (4) Southern Outdoor Coffee Robot Kiosk; (5) Northern Outdoor Coffee Robot Kiosk; (6) Corner Coffee Robot Kiosk.

These six models offer comprehensive, full-scenario coverage and elevate both product functionality and consumer experience. According to reporters, COFE+ is the world’s most extensively tested, most iterated, most reliable, and most stable coffee robot on the market. It features: Longest product life (10 years or over 500,000 cups); Production capacity exceeding 1,000 cups per day with nearly zero error or fluctuation; Drink variety ranging from 50 to over 350 types; A smart brain capable of storing and updating thousands of signature recipes from 197 countries and cities, with weekly new menus and monthly limited editions; 100% replication of champion barista craftsmanship; Consistent flavor quality equal to top-tier global cafés; Just 15 minutes of maintenance needed for a full day of unmanned operation. It has broken multiple industry records, set new world-firsts, and continues to lead the race among robot coffee maker Manufacturers.

The 6^th generation of COFE+: “The World’s First Lightweight Coffee Store”

At the press conference, Shanghai Hi-Dolphin Robot Technology Co., Ltd. unveiled the groundbreaking specs of the 6^th generation of COFE+, positioning it as one of the Top robot coffee shops reshaping the global coffee experience.

With a compact footprint of less than 2.5 square meters, the new COFE+ packs enormous power into a small space. It offers dual coffee bean selections, two types of fresh milk, both paper and plastic cups, and supports hot, cold, and iced drinks. With full personalization options for strength, sweetness, temperature, ice level, ingredients, and toppings, this high-quality robotic coffee kiosk can freshly brew over 50 drink varieties across six categories, including Western milk tea, Japanese matcha, chocolate beverages, flavored dairy drinks, and iced specialties. Each drink is made in an average of just 50 seconds, with a single refill allowing over 300 cups to be served continuously. It is praised by consumers as the new “Coffee Superhero”.

The 6^th generation of COFE+ can intelligently and accurately control ingredients to milliliters and micrograms: It automatically adjusts pressure, flow rate, grind size, thickness, and extraction time. With two types of beans, animal and plant-based milk, six syrups, and ten nut powders, it creates hundreds of drinks with varying concentrations, sweetness, temperature, flavor, and toppings, truly achieving drink innovation freedom. With customizable cup sizes and advanced preparation methods such as fast-grind, master-level, fancy coffee, 3D graphic coffee, and other beverage production processes of different grades and qualities, COFE+ has earned the title of “Coffee Optimus Prime” by the industry.

Through advanced AI control, COFE+ preserves 99.99% of the original aroma of the beans after grinding and extraction, whether commercial, award-winning, or specialty-grade SOE beans. This enables it to match or surpass the sensory experience of the world’s best cafés. Recognized by specialty coffee shops and acclaimed by global coffee champions and judges, it has cemented its reputation among the Top robot coffee shops worldwide.

More impressively, COFE+ marks the first time a coffee robot has surpassed human baristas in quality. By digitizing the craft and expertise of champion baristas into AI-driven parameters and formulas, it achieves near 100% replication of elite techniques. Each cup delivers flavor on par with world-class cafes, redefining what the Best robot cafe Sale can offer.

COFE+, as a High Quality robotic coffee kiosk, also features full remote management. With just one smartphone, operators can power machines on or off, update menus, launch new products, manage ads, switch media content, and enable energy-saving modes. It offers real-time monitoring of ingredient consumption, sales, component performance, and malfunction alerts, allowing one operator to manage up to 10 kiosks remotely. This reduces operational costs by over 90% and fundamentally transforms profit models, making loss-making coffee shops a thing of the past.

In addition, the 6^th generation of COFE+ integrates powerful data analytics. Its smart retail brain tracks the preferences of millions of consumers, providing a multidimensional analysis of decision-making behaviors and real-time feedback to enhance service quality continually. Compared to traditional service, its AI capabilities offer superior personalization and efficiency, once again pushing the boundaries of the Top robot coffee shops.

The 6^th generation of COFE+ introduces a virtual assistant system that simulates real human baristas. It welcomes customers, explains new products, introduces promotions, provides information about ingredients and production processes, and reminds users of safety precautions like avoiding burns or retrieving sugar packets and straws. Customers can select male or female voices, adjust tone, volume, and background music, and enjoy seamless real-time interaction across audio, visual, text, and image formats. This makes COFE+ a truly “talking” coffee robot with a soul. It supports both online and offline ordering, various payment methods such as active or passive QR code scanning and card payment, and offers multilingual support in Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Loved by users worldwide, it has been dubbed the “Talking Coffee Robot.”

COFE+ also achieved a global environmental breakthrough, becoming the first in its category to use 95% recyclable or reusable materials. All waste, including coffee grounds, wastewater, and byproducts, is professionally treated instead of being discharged, resulting in near-zero pollution. Its standards for e-waste recycling meet the strictest EU and US regulations. Whether transported by land, air, or sea, it meets the highest global safety and environmental benchmarks. This ultra-sustainable approach has earned it the nickname “Green Giant Coffee” across Europe, America, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand.

COFE+ Leads the World: Deployed in 50 countries, 100 cities, and over 1,000 locations.

COFE+ remains the world’s only robotic coffee solution to undergo over six years of real-world operations, with successful deployment in more than 100 cities, across 100+ usage scenarios, and over 2 million beverages served with consistent performance. With six generations of product evolution, COFE+ is recognized among the world’s most advanced robot coffee maker Manufacturers and one of the most competitive players in the global Best robot cafe Sale market. It is the only robotic café platform certified by leading authorities in the U.S., EU, Commonwealth countries, the Middle East, and the UN. It has fully integrated payment, POS hardware, communication protocols, and multilingual systems, making it the definitive “World Champion” coffee robot. In key performance indicators such as country coverage, location deployment, operational stability, upgrade frequency, and market share, COFE+ consistently ranks first, earning its place among the most trusted names in the industry and recognized as one of the Top robot coffee shops worldwide.

Its exceptional product quality has attracted widespread cooperation from global Fortune 500 and China’s top 500 companies. COFE+ has been the exclusive coffee robot invited to serve at top-level events such as the National People’s Congress, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the Central Party School, various ministries, the Davos Forum, and global robotics summits. It stands as a shining example of new productive forces. From the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Japan, Korea, to Southeast Asia, COFE+ partners span over 50 countries and hundreds of cities. From the Terracotta Warriors to the Bund, the Oriental Pearl Tower to Yungang Grottoes, and from major airports in Xi’an, Shanghai, Kunming, and Xishuangbanna to high-speed rail stations, metro hubs, and expressways across China, COFE+ is rewriting the future of the café business. Whether in luxury hotels like Portman Ritz-Carlton, InterContinental, Jinling, Jinjiang, or major cultural and commercial hubs, theme parks, offices, and industrial parks across Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Anhui, Ningxia, Guangdong, Hebei, Hainan, and Fujian, COFE+ is spearheading a sweeping new industrial revolution. 

Backed by four successful rounds of international venture capital, COFE+ is the only coffee robotics company globally to have secured this level of funding, solidifying its leadership in the Best robot cafe sales space.

The 6^th generation of COFE+: Launching a New Global Industrial Revolution

COFE+ integrates AI to deliver performance that rivals even the most skilled human baristas in consistency, precision, and speed.

At the WAIC exhibition site, journalists observed the 6^th generation of COFE+ delivering astonishing performance and speed. From cup selection, ice dispensing, water pumping, bean grinding, extraction, milk frothing, 3D printing or latte art, capping, to final delivery, COFE+ replicates the skills of world champion baristas with nearly 100% accuracy. Each cup is produced in just 40-60 seconds. The result? A premium Geisha coffee, hailed as the “Da Hong Pao of coffee,” rivaling the taste of elite cafés like Blue Bottle, Peet’s, %Arabica, and Costa. At a stunningly affordable price of just ¥9.7 per cup, it’s truly a case of high quality at low cost. Technology is making life better, one cup at a time.

As a revolutionary force in the new economy and retail sector, the 6^th generation of COFE+ dramatically reduces the traditional café’s labor, rent, energy, and maintenance costs. It solves persistent problems such as poor management, inconsistent quality, staff instability, difficult location changes, short operating hours, and off-season challenges. But more than that, COFE+ surpasses human baristas: it fully replicates championship-level coffee artistry, reproduces iconic global flavors, and offers 24/7 continuous service. It’s a total disruption to the traditional café model, making the idea of the “24-hour never-closing café,” “the café of the next decade,” “the new generation unmanned café,” “a business you can run while lying down,” and “a café that never loses money” a present-day reality powered by a High Quality robotic coffee kiosk.

As COFE+ founder Dr. Han puts it: “We want a world where there’s no longer location risk when opening a shop, no loss when relocating, no seasonal downturns, no exhausting service labor, no decision-making anxiety in investment, and no loss-making brick-and-mortar stores. That is the true mission of AI and robotics, empowering traditional industries.”

COFE+ is now driving the transition of global retail from the slow, heavy, and rigid “old store” era to the flexible, fast, and intelligent “light store” era. In that sense, each cup from COFE+ is not just coffee, but also a world-class product and a milestone in retail evolution.

About Hi-dolphin:

Shanghai Hi-Dolphin Robot Technology Co., Ltd. was established in Shanghai in January 2018. It is an AI technology company with core R&D capabilities, superior operating technology, and a strong sales network. Its main business focuses on utilizing artificial intelligence technology to address the issue of unattended freshness in the food and beverage industry.

After rigorous inspection and evaluation by the food safety expert group of domestic and overseas supervision, Shanghai Hi-Dolphin Robot Technology has obtained 50+ officially recognized certifications, meeting the global standards of 20+ developed countries.