
August 25, 2026
The story behind the surprise hit of Computex 2026: a robot barista with Intel inside
At Computex 2026, the unexpected standout on the show floor was "Ella", a fully autonomous robot barista built by Sensory AI that wowed crowds while serving fresh coffee. Beyond pouring a great brew, the feature explores the major engineering breakthrough inside: replacing expensive discrete GPU setups by running the robot’s entire multi-agent AI system - handling customer chats, safety, and store analytics concurrently- on a single Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chip.

April 21, 2022
Temasek's Heliconia Capital invests in Crown Digital’s $3.7M Pre-Series A round
Crown Digital, the Singapore-based full-stack hardware and software tech start-up behind ELLA the robot barista, said Wednesday it has raised S5 million ($3.66 million) in a Pre-Series A round from Temasek Holdings’s Heliconia Capital Management, Momentum Ventures (SMRT), ParticleX, Leave a Nest, Gloca Link and M4ever.

March 2, 2022
S’pore robot barista ELLA now at Raffles Place, the first out of 30 MRT stations by end 2022
In August last year, Singapore startup Crown Digital announced that it has partnered with Stellar Lifestyle, the commercial arm of SMRT Corporation Limited, to deploy its robot barista ELLA at 30 MRT stations across Singapore by end 2022.













































