The Russian robot from Promobot began working as a consultant in the supermarket Lider Hiper - it belongs to
A robot can advise store buyersin Spanish, Portuguese and English. The robot will help you navigate the assortment of the store, guests can check with the robot the availability of products and prices for them, the conditions of promotions and special offers. For work, the artificial intelligence (AI) of the robot analyzed and memorized 120 thousand trade items: food, children's goods, household chemicals, building materials and other goods. According to the developers, it is now the world's largest volume of product data used in a robot.
"The flow of people in the Walmart supermarketresembles a subway at rush hour. To make the robot’s movement as safe and autonomous as possible, our engineers created unique obstacle sensors - they are faster, more accurate and more reliable than any solutions on the market. We hope that thanks to cooperation with Walmart, we will be able to scale this development to other Promobot robots - in any country in the world. It’s a great success to test Russian inventions in the world’s most famous retail chain.”
Oleg Kivokurtsev, Development Director at Promobot.
Walmart Corporation is known for implementingrobotic solutions: robots for disinfection, drones for delivering goods, as well as "smart" grocery baskets, but the robot consultant Walmart installed for the first time. Especially for the American company, Russian developers have upgraded the obstacle sensors installed in the promobot. Research and tests were carried out for about several months - in Russia and Chile.
The Promobot company was founded in 2015 in Perm. Since the same year he has been a resident of Skolkovo. Promobots work in 40 countries around the world as administrators, promoters, consultants, guides and concierges, replacing or supplementing "live" employees.
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