{"id":110084,"date":"2020-07-17T02:43:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T09:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/japanese-robot-to-clock-in-at-a-convenience-store-in-test-of-retail-automation"},"modified":"2020-07-17T02:43:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T09:43:04","slug":"japanese-robot-to-clock-in-at-a-convenience-store-in-test-of-retail-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/japanese-robot-to-clock-in-at-a-convenience-store-in-test-of-retail-automation","title":{"rendered":"Japanese robot to clock in at a convenience store in test of retail automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanese-robot-to-clock-in-at-a-convenience-store-in-test-of-retail-automation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO (Reuters) \u2014 In August, a robot vaguely resembling a kangaroo will begin stacking sandwiches, drinks and ready meals on shelves at a Japanese convenience store in a test its maker, Telexistence, hopes will help trigger a wave of retail automation.<\/p>\n<p>Following that trial, store operator FamilyMart says it plans to use robot workers at 20 stores around Tokyo by 2022. At first, people will operate them remotely \u2014 until the machines\u2019 artificial intelligence (AI) can learn to mimic human movements. Rival convenience store chain Lawson is deploying its first robot in September, according to Telexistence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt advances the scope and scale of human existence,\u201d the robot maker\u2019s chief executive, Jin Tomioka, said as he explained how its technology lets people sense and experience places other than where they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (Reuters) \u2014 In August, a robot vaguely resembling a kangaroo will begin stacking sandwiches, drinks and ready meals on shelves at a Japanese convenience store in a test its maker, Telexistence, hopes will help trigger a wave of retail automation. Following that trial, store operator FamilyMart says it plans to use robot workers at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}