BALLWIN, Mo. – If you’ve spotted a robot gliding across the floor at your neighborhood QuikTrip, it’s not science fiction, it’s part of a company-wide initiative to make cleaning more convenient in ...

Northeast Grocery is testing in-store robots designed to detect out-of-stocks and inaccurate prices in 10 upstate New York stores. The Tally robots from Simbe will roam the aisles of five Price ...

Service robots are reshaping healthcare, retail, and hospitality by improving efficiency, safety, and daily operations ...

A university study finds that adding anthropomorphism features to frontline robots — such as humanlike “expressive eyes, emotive voices, and subtle gestures” — increases bystanders’ empathic responses ...

In-store robots aren’t just tools that can check for mislabeled products or clean messes in a timely manner. They also provide an answer to some of the challenges created by the pandemic, as ...