Retail Robots
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Welcome to Retail Robots. Retail Robots tracks the emergence of intelligent machines into the retailing sector of the economy, with retail robot articles, retail robot videos, and everyday conversation about robots in general.
What about the “backend” of the retail store? A specific example of a progressive retail business robot supplier is Kiva. In Kiva’s approach, goods are kept on portable storage units. When an order for an item arrives,
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it is transmitted wirelessly to a robotic platform, which navigates the warehouse to find the storage unit containing the requested items, lifts the unit up by sliding under it, and brings it to a human worker at a work station. The worker picks the items needed to fill orders, while the robot returns the storage unit to the warehouse. The robots navigate around the warehouse using an onboard camera to read barcode stickers on the warehouse floor. They communicate wirelessly to computer servers that run order-processing software and deliver directions.
One generic example of a retail robot is the self checkout machine. These intelligent machines are automated alternatives to the traditional cashier-staffed checkout at retailers. For now, they have been implemented most often in gasoline, grocery and hardware stores. The benefit to the customer is in the reduced checkout time because stores are often able to efficiently run two to six self checkout units where it normally would have had one cashier. The benefit to the retailer in providing self checkout machines is in reduced staffing requirements since one attendant is all that is required to run 4 to 6 checkout lanes at one time.
It won’t be long before android robots will also be working in retail stores. Thank you for visiting RetailRobots.com.
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