Mobile Robot Tracks Inventory On Store Shelves
Mobile Robot Tracks Inventory On Store Shelves
January 18, 2017
DC Velocity
Ben Ames
January 2017
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A new inventory-tracking robot called Tally could improve supply chain visibility by providing an inexpensive way to track goods after they leave the warehouse, according to industry professionals at the National Retail Federation (NRF) convention in New York this week.
San Francisco-based Simbe Robotics Inc. makes the mobile robot, which maneuvers around crowded retail floors taking high-resolution imagery of store shelves and automatically identifying and counting the items it sees. The Tally platform uses image-recognition technology to do the work at a lower cost than traditional methods such as radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, its maker says.
January 18, 2017
