This futuristic vending machine has a Human-like-manned shop experience, which can recognise the gender of the customer and change an appropriate service animated personnel to attend to the customer. The animated personnel will face and follow the customer's movement in front of the vending machine. It can recommend suitable herbal tea based on customer age, gender and emotion recognition with the current weather forecast. For example, the animated personnel will recommend a proper herbal tea during the hazy weather. If the vending machine is located at the tertiary institution, the animated personnel will consider critical periods like examination seasons for the recommendation. The vending machine is also equipped with crowd monitoring for gaming options.