Intelligent Machines Join Retail

SpaceX set for historic commercial flight to station
CNET
"I'm hopeful that in 20 years we'll be taking lots of people and equipment to Mars and that the beginnings of a self-sustaining base on Mars will be there. I'm not saying this will happen. You asked what I hope will happen, so I hope that will happen.

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Recon Scout Robot At 2012 ICRA
Military Technologies
Robots are integrated in our lives already, from a Dasani drink dispensing machine, to self-checkout counters at grocery stores. However, the robotic technology that has the most benefit to man is not your average drink delivery system, ...

Recon Scout Robot At 2012 ICRA
RedOrbit
Robots are integrated in our lives already, from a Dasani drink dispensing machine, to self-checkout counters at grocery stores. However, the robotic technology that has the most benefit to man is not your average drink delivery system, ...

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Haunted by 'unexpected items in bagging area'
This is Hull and East Riding
Think again. I've avoided self-service checkouts like the plague since they started popping up several years ago. For a start, I'm not a robot. Bizarrely, I like some human contact when I'm buying my weekly groceries. I quite like the fact there's ...

Would holographic supermarket staff improve your shopping experience?
The Guardian (blog)
Automated shopping and checkout has been a bit of a failure in the States. Naturally, such commercial failures are not publicized, so each new market is free to repeat errors. I've got a splendid idea. Let's replace everybody with robots.

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Alice Jones: In a world without people, who will police the robots?
The Independent
It's a robotic female voice chiding "Unexpected Item in Bagging Area", laid over a backing track of frantically rustling un-openable plastic bags, dropped coins and screams. Self-service checkouts are one of the most peculiar banes of 21stcentury ...

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