Robot barista serves coffee at Tokyo's 'Strange Cafe' (VIDEO)

Japanese company HIS opened'Hen na Cafe', meaning Strange Cafe, in the country's capital Thursday. The robot, which goes by the name Sawyer, is composed of an arm with multiple degrees of freedom and a tablet computer for a face. In footage posted online, the machine can be seen whizzing and whirring as it picks up a cup placed on a holder by customers. Steaming hot water then flows through the filter from above, making a fresh cup of robo-coffee. Confirming many people's fears about automation, HIS says this fully-automated system has been installed to reduce the number of human workers needed to run the cafe, according to AP.