Humanoid AI Robots Go Full Service at CES 2025

It has taken a number of years, but more sophisticated food and beverage service robots arrived in full force at CES.

CES attendees were drawn to the Richtech Robotics display, containing some of the more advanced service robots.

Richtech Robotics showed robotics for use in the hospitality and health care industries and an autonomous delivery robot.

The most prominent Richtech Robotics showed were targeted at serving, including the Adam interactive robot designed to serve beverages and Scorpion, an AI powered, one-arm drink serving robot.

“Adam is in Ghost Kitchens at Walmart and Scorpion is in wine and spirits stores,” said Matt Casella, president of Richtech Robotics, as he gave me a tour of the Richtech technology.

Casella said the robots can do a range of different things in different industries, but they are relatively easy for the public to understand seeing them in the food and beverage industry.

“Everybody wants to see it work,” Casella said in terms of consumer reaction to the robotic servers.

The AI-enabled machines can accept commands in languages and translate to recommend drinks, Casella said.

Richtech recently expanded its automated restaurant operations to 20 more Walmart stores in Arizona, Colorado and Texas.

Robot drink-making capabilities were demonstrated at CES in Las Vegas last year.

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The robot can serve a variety of coffee and boba drinks to customers and can serve up to 200 cups of coffee and tea per day.

Adam is used via an integrated touchscreen point-of-sale system for customer ordering and paying. 

Casella said Adam is at the Texas Rangers baseball stadium Globe Life Field using its AI capabilities. Adam is believed to be the first humanoid bartender robot in a major league sports arena or large-scale entertainment venue.