Robots may already be taking our jobs in some industries, but humans offering customer service on the shop floor look as if they’re safe for a while yet. The judgment comes after witnessing a recent ...

“Robo ‘cleanup’ in aisle three!” Some grocery stores in the U.S. are calling on robots in an attempt to keep their floors clean. Giant Food Stores has already piloted the wheeled robot, dubbed Marty, ...

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The robots might be taking taking over retail, but some of them might be too cute to fear. Marty, a googly-eyed robot that assists in store clean-up efforts, is celebrating one year since the start of ...

A new robot from San Francisco startup Simbe is designed to travel the aisles of retail stores to check merchandise stock and placement. Tally detaches from a charging dock, then takes high-resolution ...

Simbe, the global leader in retail shelf digitization and store intelligence, today announced the launch of Tally 4.0, the most advanced generation of its shelf-scanning robot and the flagship data ...

It was a noble experiment gone awry. A robot was just fired from a grocery store in Scotland for confusing some customers and freaking out others. "We thought a robot was a great addition to show the ...

A staff member debugs a humanoid robot at a robot company in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province, June 25, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] A robot 6S store, claimed to be the world's first of its kind, ...

As if avoiding impulse purchases at the grocery store wasn’t hard enough, the company behind M&Ms has created an autonomous robot that follows you around as you shop for groceries to tempt you with ...