{"id":1007557,"date":"2026-05-11T10:45:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007557"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:14:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:44:59","slug":"the-barista-is-human-but-an-ai-agent-runs-this-experimental-swedish-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/11\/the-barista-is-human-but-an-ai-agent-runs-this-experimental-swedish-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"The barista is human but an AI agent runs this experimental Swedish cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coffee might be poured by a human hand, but behind the counter something far less traditional is calling the shots at an experimental cafe in Stockholm. <\/p>\n<p>San Francisco-based startup Andon Labs has put an artificial intelligence agent nicknamed &#8220;Mona&#8221; in charge at the eponymous Andon Cafe in the Swedish capital. While human baristas still brew the coffee and serve the orders, the AI agent &#8211; powered by Google&#8217;s Gemini &#8211; oversees almost every other aspect of the business, from hiring staff to managing inventory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coffee might be poured by a human hand, but behind the counter something far less traditional is calling the shots at an experimental cafe in Stockholm. San Francisco-based startup Andon Labs has put an artificial intelligence agent nicknamed &#8220;Mona&#8221; in charge at the eponymous Andon Cafe in the Swedish capital. While human baristas still brew the coffee and serve the orders, the AI agent &#8211; powered by Google&#8217;s Gemini &#8211; oversees almost every other aspect of the business, from hiring staff to managing inventory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007583,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007557\/revisions\/1007583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}