Morrisons has begun trialling robots in select stores that roam the aisles to monitor how products are being displayed on shelves.
The Tally robots, developed by California-based company Simbe, have been deployed at three stores – in Wetherby, Redcar and Stockton.
Tally is able to automate the tedium of scanning store shelves to conduct product audits. The roughly 1.5m tall robot traverses store aisles to carry out inventories of the shelves and floor displays, delivering real-time data about mispriced products and stock shortages.
The platform integrates multiple advanced sensing technologies – including computer vision cameras, RFID readers and precision depth sensors – to create a complete digital twin of the retail environment. As Tally traverses store aisles, this multi-sensor array captures and processes up to 30,000 products per hour, detecting out-of-stock products, pricing errors and misplaced items with exceptional accuracy.
Simbe’s AI-powered analytics engine then synthesises...