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Woodman's Market brings in robots for shelf-checking duties | Business

A robotic whose designer and vendor says is constructed like a “very lean soccer tight finish” spends 12 hours a day photo-scanning the cabinets at Woodman’s Market to trace misplaced or mispriced merchandise, stock gaps and out-of-stock objects. The 6-foot-4-inch, 130-pound robot doesn’t get drained besides when it wants a battery recharge. It’s quiet and well mannered—nearly meek—because it pivots on its wheeled base to keep away from bumping into folks after which sinks again into its automated duties. Beneath a partnership with retail tech developer Badger Applied sciences, Janesville-based Woodman’s has begun deploying autonomous robots into retailer aisles to conduct value and stock checks and immediately share knowledge with managers of supermarkets that may inventory as much as 100,000 completely different merchandise. That is tedious grunt work that’s lengthy been the bane of grocery retailer staff, but it surely’s changing into extra vital as