The robot that serves you a drink

In addition to working in hospitals

In previous articles we saw Elon Musk's Tesla Bot serving popcorn and now a robot that mixes drinks, serves popcorn, makes public presentations and also helps in hospitals, all with natural gestures and convincing posture.

It was unveiled by Chinese startup Keenon Robotics, which stole the spotlight at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2025 with the world premiere of the XMAN-F1, a task-oriented humanoid designed to transform automation in hospitality and services.

Unlike robots with a focus on exception or laboratory research, the XMAN-F1 was born from a practical function, to be implemented in real workflows, handling simple and repetitive tasks reliably. Its bipedal design was optimized to move fluidly in environments such as hotels, bars and hospitals, and its system allows for multimodal interactions, voice recognition, gestures and execution of pre-programmed commands.

The largest in sales so far

During the fair, the XMAN-F1 surprised by interacting with the public in three different scenarios, a bar, a medical environment and a stage for presentations, not only did it follow orders, it also made autonomous decisions based on environmental variables, showing a level of contextual control still rare in commercial application robberies.

Keenon Robotics made it clear that the goal is not to immediately create an all-terrain robo, according to CEO Litan, the plan is to follow a gradual evolution, starting with well-defined tasks, gaining operational reliability and then expanding versatility.

The robot will be trained in real environments by feeding its system with physical data from the world, something essential to make these machines more adaptive and intelligent over time.

With more than 100,000 robots sold and support from giants such as Softbank, who already nominate a significant share of the global food and service delivery robots market, its market share reaches 40.4% in this segment and expansion plans for 2025 include a 50% increase in sales, taking advantage of the trend of humanoid robots to bring new hospitality, retail and health contracts.