Marty, the big-eyed robot who helps with cleaning in grocery stores, celebrated his first birthday on Saturday and his first year in business. When they say "working for a lifetime".
It has already been a year since Marty, the robot boy on wheels, was launched in almost 500 grocery stores including about 300 stores of the American chain Stop & Shop.
Tim Rowland, CEO of Badger Technologies, says that his robots have made an excellent human resources support service in supermarkets. Currently. In the year Japan takes out 90% of staff from the flagship store of a major brand (Uniqlo) it is safe to think that Marty will not stop there.
How Marty, the boy robot works
Marty constantly patrols the endless aisles of supermarket shelves to detect any broken packaging or leakage of a liquid. At that point he reports the situation to the staff and positions himself as a "moving alert" to prevent customers from falling to the ground.
To operate, Marty uses laser-based LIDAR sensors, and always gives them the right of way to avoid hitting customers. Meaning what. Somehow. Watch one of the many videos found on YouTube by searching for “Marty, grocery store robot”:
Two big fake eyes and eight real
Marty's two reassuring and large eyes are "scenic needs" to anthropomorphize him a little and generate empathy. But the robot boy is not blind, on the contrary: he has eight eyes. It is equipped with many cameras, some facing the floor and others that can see the shelves.
Rowland said the robots could eventually also be reused to monitor a store's inventory. I expect nothing less. Put a bucket and a patch on it, and see what it does to you. Such as? Already clean as well? Ohioi.
Executives, customers and employees (quoque tu) of the Stop & Shop chain greeted Marty's first birthday with activities, discounts, parties and cakes.
I find it good that Marty still cannot make wishes, otherwise poor them. Secondly, dear robot boy, 100 of these days and always remains as you are.
