Googly-Eyed Robot Risk Manager To Look For Spills In Grocery Store

First, they came to replace the supermarket checkout person. Now they’ve come for the risk managers. Technology and automation, that is. Carlisle, Pennsylvania-based Giant LLC will be deploying an army of robot assistants at its grocery stores through Pennsylvania to help watch for spills, hazards, inventory and other monitoring activities that will help with the large supermarket chain’s bottle line. “Marty,” the tall gray robot on wheels, has been operating at Giant stores in two cities since 2017, and by the middle of this year the chain expects to have one of the devices patrolling the aisles at each of its 172 stores. . . .