A robot arm brews the tea, chills the milk, cooks the pearls and film-seals your cup in about ninety seconds — around the clock, with nobody behind the counter.
One email when it opens — the date, the address and a code for a free signature drink. Nothing else, ever.
Concept render · working unit ships Q1 2027
STARBOT Vol. I — the coffee unit — has been trading at City St George’s, University of London: a robot arm serving around 150 cups a day from £2.00, with nobody behind the counter. Vol. II runs on the same chassis, the same arm, the same app and the same refill route. Different recipe, proven machine.
The photographs and clip above are the STARBOT coffee unit, Vol. I, trading in London today — not bubble tea. Bubble Tea is not on sale yet; that is what the waitlist is for.
Standard kiosk footprint. Single-phase power. Contactless payments. Full telemetry over 4G / 5G with Wi-Fi failover.
| Dimensions W×D×H | 1700 × 1500 × 2000mm |
| Weight | < 800kg · crated, pallet-friendly |
| Footprint | 2.55m² · queue-friendly |
| Cup capacity | 300cups per refill |
| Cup sizes | 500 / 700ml · M / L |
| Ingredient tanks | 10 L × 4chilled · sealed |
| Milk tank | 20 Lchilled · 4°C target |
| Ice production | 100 kg / dayon-board, no external feed |
| Sealing capacity | 2,000+cups per film roll |
| Cup time | ~90 stap to seal, average |
| Power | 5 kW110 / 220–240 V AC, peak |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi · 4G · 5Gtelemetry · OTA updates |
| Payments | Card · Apple · Googlecontactless |
| Certification | CE · ISO 9001as standard |
| Operation | 24 / 7unmanned · ~1 refill a day |
Engineering data sheet on request — hello@starbot.co.uk
Terminals, offices, malls — the room changes, the 2 m² box does not. Every image below is a concept render, not a photograph: the working unit ships Q1 2027.
One email when Bubble Tea opens: the date, the address, and a code for a free signature drink on opening day.
Join the waitlistStations, universities, hospitals, malls, offices. We site it, ship it, fill it and run it — you provide 2 m² and power, and take a share of revenue.
How hosting worksThe first three are for anyone who just wants a drink. The rest are the questions venues ask on the partnerships call.
The first Bubble Tea units open in London in Q1 2027. Sites are being confirmed with venue partners now, so we cannot name the address yet — the waitlist email carries it, along with the opening date, before it goes anywhere else.
One email. It gives you the opening date, the address, and a code for a free signature drink on opening day. No newsletter, no drip sequence, no passing your address to anyone else.
We haven't set it. Drink pricing is agreed with each venue when the first units go in, and everybody on the waitlist hears it before opening day rather than at the screen.
2.55 m² for the unit plus a metre in front for the queue. It is 1700 × 1500 × 2000 mm, crates under 800 kg and comes in on a pallet jack — no rigging, no shopfitting.
Single-phase 110 / 220–240 V AC, 5 kW at peak. Ice is made on board — 100 kg a day — so there is no external feed and no plumbing.
Half a day from arrival on site, including the telemetry handshake and a test pour.
We do — a single-operator route at roughly one refill a day. The unit reports its own tank levels over 4G/5G, so it is restocked before anything runs out.
Revenue share or a fixed monthly lease — modelled against your footfall, not an average. The venue provides the space and power; we do everything else.
Six to eight weeks from signed order to install. Bubble Tea opens Q1 2027; early enquiries get priority slots.
The milk line-up is configurable per site, dairy and non-dairy, and every drink is labelled on screen with full allergen information before payment. Tanks are sealed, which keeps cross-contact materially lower than an open counter.
Bubble Tea opens in London in Q1 2027. Leave your email and you get one message — the date, the address, and a code for a free signature drink on opening day.
Got a venue instead? See how hosting works.
No obligation, no credit search, no spam — one reply from the team with the exact numbers for your venue.
Prefer to talk? WhatsApp us — or ask Richard, bottom right.
Ask me anything on this page — the kiosk, the numbers, your site. Voice or chat, any hour.
