“Most folks don’t interact with robots every day, so unless you work in a factory, the tech can seem remote. But if you’re a San Jose local? Welcome to the future. Orchard Supply Hardware just hired a pair of bots to greet and engage customers.
This holiday season, the robots, dubbed OSHbot, will employ a suite of new technologies to field simple customer questions, identify items, search inventory, act as guides, and even summon Orchard Supply Hardware experts for a video chat.
OSHbot was developed in a collaboration between Orchard Supply Hardware’s parent company Lowe’s, Singularity University Labs, and robotics startup Fellow Robots…”
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