The Robot Uprising Reaches the Store
Summary
And no, my colleague and I – Chris Cunnane is the lead author of this article - are not talking about Skynet building T-1000 Terminators to take over the world. We are talking about how the retail store is changing to become more automated, using artificial intelligence, and relying on non-human assistance for check-outs, price checks, and inventory management. Autonomous mobile robots are coming of age, as they get smarter and enable workers to be more productive due to constant collaboration. Nearly three years ago, Zipline began making using delivery drones for moving medical supplies to health clinics in Rwanda. The inventory data is fed into an AI engine to recognize current shelf level stock-outs, but also to predict future patterns for stock-outs.