Embodied Intelligence Deployed in the Tea Beverage Industry –
Hitbot and Chayan Yuese Enter the Era of Intelligent “Human-Machine Collaboration”
During the recent National Day Golden Week holiday, a short video circulating online showed a Chayan Yuese store going viral. In the video, a “new employee” moved cleanly and efficiently, completing the entire process of preparing a cold drink—grabbing the cup, adding toppings, labeling, stirring, and handing it over—in just 15 seconds. Netizens exclaimed, “This efficiency is simply futuristic!”
At first glance, it appears to be just a pair of busy “robotic hands” on the counter. In fact, it’s the “AI Milk Tea Workshop APP,” jointly developed by Hitbot’s HITBOT OS and Chayan Yuese. This not only makes every action more efficient and precise but also truly ushers in an era of intelligent “human-machine collaboration” for the entire store’s operation. Currently, this equipment is being piloted in some Chayan Yuese stores.
From “Robots” to “Milk Tea Shakers”: Hitbot Builds a Scenario-Based Embodied Intelligence Industry Foundation
In the field of embodied intelligence, the most pressing issue is how to deeply integrate technology with specific scenarios to achieve true commercialization.
Imagine if robots were to help us with “laundry and cooking” in the future. Our homes would first need smart appliances like washing machines, rice cookers, and dishwashers, along with a “command system” to interconnect and coordinate these appliances. Only based on this hardware and software foundation can apps for various household chores be developed. Similarly, in a milk tea shop, if a robot wants to make a cup of milk tea, it needs to integrate with the store’s POS and ordering systems, as well as specialized hardware like tea-making and ingredient-adding machines. Otherwise, even if a robot can perform the demonstration, it cannot truly integrate into the store’s business scenario and achieve commercialization.
This is precisely the core significance of Hitbot’s creation of an industry-wide “embodied intelligent infrastructure.” Hitbot decouples scenarios from hardware using an “operating system + modular hardware” approach, enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of scenario development. As the industry’s first embodied intelligent foundation to bridge the physical link between AI and robots (physical AI), HITBOT OS integrates modular hardware and business systems for different industries and scenarios, effectively lowering development barriers and accelerating application deployment and the formation of a business closed loop, forging a brand-new industrial and retail eco-environment of human-machine collaboration.
Intelligent “Hand-Drip” Revolution: A New Species of Automation for Milk Tea Shops
In the increasingly competitive tea beverage market, stores generally face three major challenges: difficulty in ensuring product consistency, complex food safety management, and high employee training costs and high staff turnover.
The emergence of Hitbot’s intelligent milk tea line with human-machine collaboration brings three key capabilities—standardized production, food safety, and cost reduction and efficiency improvement—to the new tea beverage scenario, providing a new approach to solving these problems. Standardized Production: Consistent Taste Across All Stores
Hitbot’s automatic milk tea machine uses precise weighing and automatic dispensing systems to control errors within ±1g, ensuring consistent taste and flavor in every cup of milk tea, achieving “one taste across all stores.” This not only eliminates taste deviations caused by manual operation but also enables precise recipe replication through digital management, enhancing brand competitiveness and consumer experience.
Food Safety: Fully Controllable, Strictly Adhering to Standards
Hitbot’s automatic milk tea machine allows for traceability of the dispensing process, strictly adhering to headquarters’ ingredient replacement standards. It automatically stops dispensing if ingredients are not updated as required, effectively ensuring the hygiene and safety of every cup of milk tea.
Cost Reduction and Efficiency Improvement: Effortless Peak Operations, Lighter Operations
Standardized processes and automated equipment significantly reduce reliance on manual labor and training costs. Hitbot’s automatic milk tea machine can dispense cold drinks in 15 seconds, easily handling continuous production scenarios. IoT connectivity helps headquarters monitor operational data in real time, improving the efficiency of human-machine-store collaboration and reducing labor costs.
From “Shaking Milk Tea” to “Smart Experiments”: A New Path to Embodied Intelligence Implementation
The smart milk tea line is just one “app” built by HITBOT OS based on a scenario-oriented embodied intelligence operating system. In fact, HITBOT OS has integrated hundreds of modular hardware and scenario software for different scenarios, providing an industrial foundation for the rapid implementation of embodied intelligence across various industries. For example, in HITBOT’s Smart Experiments app, devices can complete the entire process from AI-generated experimental plans to automated operation execution: the system generates a step plan based on the experimental objectives, a robotic arm precisely operates to complete operations such as adding liquid, mixing, and heating, and real-time collection of experimental data is fed back to AI for analysis. The entire process requires no human intervention, improving experimental efficiency and ensuring operational safety.
In the future, the human-machine collaboration phonomenon will appear in various industries, such as industrial production, food production, smart manufacturing, education, scientific research, medical industry and so on, the robot arm is a key part of it, we should integrate it based on embodied intelligence and artificial intelligence, then it will leverage a biggest effect and make more benefits for our society.
From “shaking milk tea” to “smart science,” HITBOT will collaborate with ecosystem partners to enable more scenarios to achieve commercial closed loops, solving the last-mile problem of embodied intelligence and empowering thousands of industries with AI.