Yummy Future / Mission
Fleet3 STORES · LIVE
FoundedSEP 2018
Cups poured240,000+
Team~60 PART-TIME
Yummy Future's flagship robotic unit at the production bar
ORIGIN: UIUC ADVANCED DIGITAL PROJECTS LAB
SEPTEMBER 2018
STATUS · LIVE

From repetition to creation.

Free hands, free minds. Robots don't replace creativity. They scale it.

2018
Founded · UIUC lab
3
Stores live today
240,000+
Cups served
See how we got here ↓

Seven years in.
Still the same backbone.

SEP 2018Early Yummy Future robotic prototype inside UIUC's Advanced Digital Projects Lab
Founded
2019Yummy Future robot, the year the company won the Illinois Cozad New Venture Challenge and the Amazon Alexa Prize, and joined Y Combinator S19
Cozad · Alexa Prize · YC S19
2022Side view of an early-generation Yummy Future robotic unit, the machine running the first store
First store
OCT 2025Yummy Future cup at the Palo Alto storefront, opened October 2025
Palo Alto opens
MAR 2026Champaign store relaunched as a dedicated matcha shop, March 2026
Champaign relaunches
3
Stores live
240,000+
Cups poured
Today

We think people are better than the dirty work.
So the robot took it.

Robot · what's lifted off
Robotic arm with an orange gripper positioning two cups under the espresso heads
The dirty work
Human · where we move up
A barista laughing while handing a matcha cup across the counter to a customer
Hospitality & ownership
Same craft Better job Better business
A barista working the counter at a Yummy Future store today

We could just sell the hardware.
We chose to run the stores instead.

01 · Designed
Hardware and software, one system
02 · Engineered
The same drink, every time
03 · Operated
We run the counter ourselves

All three stores are ours. No outside operator runs our machine yet.

Come see it pull a shot.

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Palo Alto · 170 University Matcha House · 401 E Green Champaign · 609 E Green
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