Robot merchandiser monitors the display of goods on supermarket shelves Bashny.Net

Absence on store shelves at the right time certain sellers of goods worth billions of dollars a year. Merchandisers are required to ensure that the goods on the shelves looked good and was accordingly placed the planned scheme. Among Simbe Robotics sure that this robot can do - and is therefore working on Tally, Merchandiser robot on a moving platform, able to check in an hour in a small supermarket shelves.





Tally robot with four cameras track the items on the shelves of up to two and a half meters. It helps to carry out routine work: looking for where the product is no longer where it is incorrect or out of place following the respective price lists current price list.

Many stores have their own applications that make up the "map" of products on the shelves - according to this map work merchandisers, decomposed product. The robot uses this information to keep order, and when it finds inconsistencies - sends a message to employees living supermarket or warehouse, so they deal with the problems.

The robot hand, unfortunately, no, it can not by itself reverse the goods on the shelves. The company says that the robot really tetestiruyut in several large supermarkets.



The robots have performed well in warehouses Amazon, which now thirty thousand "movers» Kiva transport racks . Joe Jones, a researcher in the field of robotics and businesswoman confident that the main challenge for developers Tally - to make the robot merchandiser was able to work effectively in the real world.

One of the problems for the majority of such devices - work in the real world, where there is the human factor - that is, people, whether employees or customers. Customers, which may include aggressive-minded children and their parents , difficult to control. Robot-hitchhiker Hitchbot unknown torn apart , and Kiichi Japanese Ishikawa was arrested because he beat unsuccessfully joked emotional robots Pepper.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/265688/