The Quality of Your Coffee May Soon Be Determined by a Robot
- Demetria’s hand-held scanners can learn to grade beans
- Company completed a pilot program with a division of Volcafe
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The days of experts gathering in a sealed-off room to sip coffee and grade beans on their color, aroma and taste may be numbered.
Demetria, a Colombian-Israeli company developed an artificial intelligence data platform that can determine the quality of beans when used with hand-held sensors. The machine will need a human to input the quality parameters first, but after that, it will be able to classify coffee before it’s even roasted. The company has completed a pilot program with Carcafe, the Colombian division of Volcafe, one of the world’s largest coffee traders.