Introducing CASE: the cognitive coffee-maker - Internet of Things Blog

Anyone whose working environment is plagued by long lines at the coffee machine will be interested in CASE – a cognitive coffee machine that recognizes its users, makes their favourite drink and engages them in conversation to while away the wait. For un-chatty types, there's the option to listen to music news updates too. CASE, named in homage to one of Interstellar's humanity-serving robots from, is brought to life by a team of students from Imperial College, London and IBM Senior Inventor John McNamara, and bears a personality inspired by Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory. Coordinator Sam Zatland says that the team's idea was to go beyond the capabilities of the'smart' coffee-machines currently on the market. While these simply allow the user to set a time for their coffee or control the machine from their smartphones, CASE offers much more.