With the push of a button, the big white robot lights up and its spindly arms spring to life, grinding coffee beans and boiling a flask of hot water.
It takes 261 individual movements and three minutes for the Robotic Coffee Master - which resembles a Michelin man but with unusually long arms - to brew a cup of pour-over coffee.
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