Simbe

August 31, 2019

News Article

Wall Street Journal
August 31, 2019

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For a company like San Francisco-based Simbe Robotics—which makes five-foot-highrobots that wheel around grocery stores, taking inventory—the N can be fairly high because their robots are almost entirely autonomous. When the robots are introduced in a store, says Lauren Milliken, a field deployment engineer at the company, they must be steered by a human to build a map. Humans also have to take over on rare occasions when, for instance, there’s construction in a store or someone harasses a robot, she adds.

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