In Walmart supermarket the Russian robot appeared

2020: In Walmart supermarket the Russian Promobot robot appeared

On September 28, 2020 the Russian company Promobot announced appearance of the robot in one of Walmart supermarkets. He advises visitors of shops in three languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English.

The robot is installed in Lider Hiper supermarket (enters into the Walmart group) in the capital of Chile. The device helps to orient with shop: users will be able to specify existence of products and the price of them, conditions of actions and special offers at the robot. Before start of the equipment the artificial intelligence analyzed and remembered 120 thousand trade positions: food, children's goods, household chemicals, construction materials and other goods. Promobot said that by the end of September, 2020 it is the biggest amount of data in the world about goods used in the robot.

In Walmart supermarket the Russian robot appeared

We aim to automate business processes in our supermarkets worldwide. Our mission — to remove routine standard tasks from employees and to transfer them to technologies: to robots and artificial intelligence. It will allow employees to become happier and more effective, and to buyers — with guarantee to get the service and unusual experience of interaction with the robot. To us it is important that families with children felt that in our shops both people, and robots care for them — the vice president for Walmart Chile logistics Patricio Dallan whose words are cited in the press release said.

It is noted that especially for Walmart the Russian developers upgraded the sensors of obstacles installed in the Promobot robot that "make movement of the robot the safest and autonomous". Researches and tests were conducted several months in Russia and Chile.

The development director of Promobot Oleg Kivokurtsev called "great luck" use of the Russian technology in the retail chain stores, most known in the world.^[1]

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