Posted on 11/13/2015 4:14:28 PM PST by BenLurkin
Simbe Robotics, based in San Francisco, announced its first product, a 30-pound robot called Tally that can move up and down a store's aisles checking inventory. The robot determines what products need restocking and send reports to workers who can add more stock. Tally also is set up to work during normal store hours, alongside employees and customers.
"Tally performs repetitive and laborious tasks of auditing shelves for out-of-stock items, low stock items, misplaced items, and pricing errors," the company said in a release. "Tally has the ability to audit shelves cheaper, more frequently, and significantly faster than existing processes; and with near-perfect accuracy."
The robot is equipped with multiple sensors that not only scan shelves for inventory but scan the aisles to make sure the robot isn't bumping into shelves, displays or shoppers.
Data that the robot captures is sent to the cloud where it is processed and analyzed. Store employees access the cloud data, along with inventory recommendations, through front-end applications.
The robot comes with a charging dock that the machine will autonomously navigate back to when it needs charging.
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God Bless that robot. Doritos.....yummy.
How much $$$ per hour is the robot demanding???
This is exactly why I am a Luddite. Except for FR, of course.
Soon taly will just be sending those restock notices, to stocky, the restocker robot.
The robot dot com bubble has begun.
It’s worse than that. I suspect that in a decade or two, almost every job on the planet, no matter how high paying, complex, or artistic, can be more effectively - and cheaply - done by a robot.
In fact, it’s inevitable. I think it’s why we see some odd economic positions being taken by some movers and shakers. Their activity and decisions make no sense because we don’t know what they know.
It is going to get very interesting.
The robot comes with a charging dock that the machine will autonomously navigate back to when it needs charging.
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I have that feature. I navigate myself to a coffee maker when I need recharging.
As long as he’s cheaper than $15/hr employees who intentionally smash chips.
Why would you need a robot running around the store? When I take a package of dorritos to the register the scanner determines the product and price. Should they not be able to use that info to detemine that there is one less bag on the shelf?
I hope somebody has enough sense to get another to keep the dip coming.
eh....I don't know.
In a perfect world. But large, changing numbers requires Calculus to keep track. Then, mis-pricing or changing prices, misplacement, and inventory shrinkage (theft) requires an inventory to reconcile. So this is really good, taking inventory is such a pain.
All the Haight-Ashbury crowd is very thankful.
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