A coffee shop,
shrunk into a kiosk.
STARBOT is the UK's first robot barista — a six-axis arm behind glass, pouring Specialty Grade 1 coffee to a proper café standard, with nobody behind the counter.
People stop to watch.
Then they order.
A robot arm pulling a live shot is theatre, and it stops the people who walk straight past a vending machine without seeing it. What brings them back the next morning is the cup.
A six-axis bionic arm brews in full view behind glass. Every cup is a small show — and a post on someone's story.
Hand-picked beans ground to order, fresh milk textured on the shot, recipes a head barista signed off. It tastes like a coffee shop because it is one.
No staff, no fit-out, no back of house. A full café's takings from one corner of floor — earning from day one.
Sixty seconds of robot theatre
Same cup at seven in the morning and eleven at night. No off days, no queue out of the door, no "sorry, the machine's down".
Grab it. Spin it.
The only robot barista in the world pouring Specialty Grade 1
Robot baristas are arriving everywhere. One serves specialty-grade coffee — hand-picked, defect-free beans from sustainable farms, roasted exclusively for STARBOT.
Single-origin lots from Brazil and Guatemala · roasted in the UK · fresh milk, oat on tap
Specialty prices that undercut the chains
Every drink to order — strength, milk, sweetness, ice. Hot or iced, tap to pay, and a good deal less than the same cup on the high street.
Pick your door
Host a STARBOT
at your site
You bring the footfall — we install, run and maintain the lot. Your side is a spare corner and a socket. Sorted.
Enquire for your venueOwn a STARBOT
franchise
A business in a box — kiosk, coffee supply, software and training, in a location we validate with data first.
Request the investment packWant the detail before you talk to anyone? Read the full venue host deal — a free coffee kiosk for your building, the STARBOT coffee franchise, or how to lease a robot coffee kiosk — £1,790 a month, five years, and the kiosk is yours at the end.
What would it take at your place?
Pick the kind of building and drag the footfall. The rates behind it are the ones we use ourselves before committing a kiosk anywhere — and one kiosk tops out at ~500 cups a day, whatever the crowd.
2% of campus flow — the planning rate we use for universities.
These are our own planning rates — the ones we use before committing a kiosk to a site, annualised rather than picked from a good week. Output is capped at 500 cups a day, one kiosk's realistic ceiling, and a 12-month ramp-up is applied to year one. An illustration, not a forecast.
One robot platform. Three menus.
The questions we get on every call
Rather a human? WhatsApp or hello@starbot.co.uk — we reply within a day.
Our own planning rate for a campus is 2% of the flow going past, and our first London site does about 150 cups a day against that. Before anything is installed we check your spot against real footfall, so the number is agreed in writing before the kiosk arrives — not discovered afterwards.
About 2.5 m² at ground level, a 16A single-phase power connection and stable internet. No plumbing required (a plumbed water line is preferred where available). It fits through standard entrance doors — installation and training are handled by our engineers.
Almost nobody — that is the point. It self-cleans and streams its sales and faults to our monitoring platform. A local operator gives it an hour or two a day: beans, milk, cups, a wipe-down. Nothing to roster, nothing to train, nobody to cover when they call in sick.
A specialty coffee offer your visitors actually use, with none of the operational burden of a café tenant. We install, operate and maintain the kiosk; your site gains dwell-time, a talking point, and a commercial return on a corner that was earning nothing.
Everything but the building: the kiosk, our exclusive coffee supply, the software, the training and the support — in a location we validate with footfall data first, so you're not gambling on a spot. Flexible entry models are available; request the investment pack for current terms.
Our first kiosk is live on the Clerkenwell campus — the address and opening hours are here. More UK sites are being signed now, with rail and campus locations next in the pipeline. For the right spot we will travel: anywhere in the UK or Europe, because strong footfall matters far more than the postcode.
Tell us about your site.
We'll bring the numbers.
Thirty seconds now, and you get a model built on your own footfall plus the full pack — usually the same working day.
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