This Robot Barista Makes a Dang Good Latte

Sometimes a coffee means something: it's an opportunity to catch up with friends, sit quietly among strangers, or unofficially pay a morning's rent on your Starbucks office. That's when you want a big, spacious cafe rich with the sound of typing and dense with the smell of roasted beans and five-minute pour-overs the price of a steak. Other times, though, a coffee is pure fuel: a jolt of caffeine to kick you up and out of your sleepy doldrums. Cafe X is for those times. When you go to Cafe X, there are no hipster bartenders, and no judgy glances when you ask for a bit of half-and-half.