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China’s first artificial intelligent (AI) coffee shop made its debut in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, indicating AI has walked closer to people’s life.

The coffee shop, a creative space that offers unmanned services and other functions of AI, was co-built by China’s largest intelligent hardware innovation and start-up platform IngDan and US-based robot design company Rethink Robotics.

Visitors are thrilled to see robot coffee masters make coffee and robot waiters serve, while things such as voice-controlled lights and audio devices wow them as well.

The creative coffee shop has attracted many people who want to experience robot services, with some saying the coffee had the flavor of intelligence. The robots can interact with customers and express happiness if their services are appreciated.

Artificial intelligence is being applied to a wider range of fields nowadays, said a person in charge of the experience center, disclosing that AI restaurants, bedrooms, study rooms, and other products will come out in future.