Lowe Bot. The LoweBot specifically addresses two key areas of helping customers find things and keeping track of inventory and will provide us a rich view into the mix of retail and IoT. Lowe was founded in 1971 to build high value aluminum boats and canoes to fit a familys boating needs.
On the consumer side a friendly automated helper is far more hospitable than the challenge of finding a staff member. Fellow Robots CTO Thavidu Ranatunga presents LoweBot a Jetson TX1-powered NAVii robot designed to guide Lowes Hardware customers to their item of choice. The LoweBot scans inventory to determine products that may be out of stock find price discrepancies and discover misplaced items by using machine learning and AI.
Following a successful robotics test of OSHbot at one of the companys Orchard Supply Hardware stores LoweBot will further explore how robots can meet the needs of both customers and employees.
Sep 4 2016 - Shoppers at San Francisco area Lowes stores are about to encounter a new kind of customer service worker. At Lowes the home improvement chain a LoweBot in some stores can answer simple questions such as where to find items and can assist with. The LoweBot scans inventory to determine products that may be out of stock find price discrepancies and discover misplaced items by using machine learning and AI. Now Lowes will start.