Scoop: Blue Hill Changes Name to Artly, Deploys Three Robot Baristas to San Francisco

Company's coffee-bot uses computer vision to re-create human movements.

The News

• Seattle-based Blue Hill Coffee has changed its name to Artly.

• The company has expanded beyond its initial Portland installations into San Francisco, where it has deployed three robots.

• Artly’s computer vision+artificial intelligence (AI) system can train the robot to mimic human barista movements, as well as better understand its environment.

The Story

Blue Hill Coffee is changing its name before you probably even got to know them (unless you are an OttOmate subscriber and saw the startup in our robot barista roundup). The Blue Hill moniker is no more, with the company now going by Artly.