Automatic beverage dispensing machine with improved human-machine interface

Abstract

An automatic beverage dispensing machine () provided with: a controller (); a human-machine interface module—HMI (), for acquiring the selection made by a user of recipes for the preparation of beverages; and an actuator module (), to cause the dispensing of a beverage into a receptacle (), prepared according to a recipe selected via the human-machine interface module (). The human-machine interface module is provided with: a display unit (); and a control unit (), to cause the display of a graphical user interface—GUI (), and to cause the display, in an area () of the GUI, of a recipe time bar () having a number of portions (), each associated with a respective ingredient and with a respective preparation step of the recipe. The human-machine interface module enables the creation or modification of a recipe by a user through the insertion of a number of ingredients on the recipe time bar, each one in a respective portion, the position of which determines the temporal positioning of the respective preparation step within the preparation steps of the recipe.