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Future of retail: Robot TORY is present at EuroShop 2017
TORY at a store of SchuhMücke in Rödental, Germany
Düsseldorf/Ilmenau. At EuroShop 2017, the world’s leading retail trade fair, MetraLabs will present their two most successful mobile service robots: RFID inventory robot TORY and the entertainment and guiding robot SCITOS A5. Both robots have been deployed to various sites for some time now. TORY is the first RFID inventory robot in continuous life operation worldwide. Over a year ago, TORY was installed in a store of the German fashion retailer Adler Modemärkte AG in Erfurt, Germany. Soon, ADLER extended the use of TORY to further stores. SCITOS A5 has been used in hardware stores and museums. Since November 2016, SCITOS A5 has been serving as a guide under the name of TIM at Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin.
MetraLabs continuously refines both robots. SCITOS A5 is now equipped with security capabilities. The robot has got a 360° camera which enables it to control storages and sales floors. TORY is currently used for autonomous inventory via UHF-RFID. Besides, TORY serves as shopping-assistant by guiding customers to articles they are looking for. For the future, TORY will be taking over more tasks in retail. To this end, MetraLabs is developing new applications, e.g. speech recognition and synthesis, planogram management, floor cleaning and transport of goods. “In the future, mobile service robots will have a place in retail. With TORY we would like to provide a reliable all-in-one solution and develop it in close cooperation with our clients” says Dr. Andreas Bley, Co-Founder and Managing Director at MetraLabs. Especially for small stores, MetraLabs offers a light version of the conventional TORY: By using TORY to go it will be possible to speed up manual stocktaking and to reach higher reading accuracy.
At the EuroShop 2017, MetraLabs will give visitors the chance to discuss their ideas of the future of retail and robotic applications in retail. Besides, everyone is kindly invited to pin their ideas and wishes to the board at MetraLabs’ booth or to join the discussion on facebook using the hashtag #retailrobots. TORY will be available for selfies, too.
On-site contact
Placement: Hall 7, Booth A37
Contact person: Dr. Andreas Bley, andreas.bley@metralab.com, Phone +49 173 5 61 46 61
If you are interested in an one-to-one conversation during the fair please make an appointment online and receive a ticket for free entrance to EuroShop 2017: http://www.metralabs.com/en/invitation-euroshop-2017
About MetraLabs
MetraLabs is an expert in mobile robotics with long-term experience. In 2007, the company released the first interactive shopping-robot onto the market, developed in cooperation with the Neuroinformatics and Cognitive Robotics Lab of Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany. The robot won the Thuringian state research award. Since then, more than 250 robots have been realized in different applications all over the world. All together they have gained more than 70.000 km of driving experience. MetraLabs has realized a lot of different applications for service robots, e.g. in restaurants, residential care homes, museums, shopping malls, in retail, in clean rooms and in industry. The robots interact and communicate with humans and move completely autonomously and securely even in dynamic environments thanks to MetraLabs’ proven proprietary navigation software. Looking towards the future, MetraLabs will develop further applications in the field of mobile service robots. The latest innovations are applications for automatically detecting out-of-stock situations, planogram analysis and floor cleaning.
MetraLabs GmbH – Neue Technologien und Systeme
Dr.-Ing. Johannes Trabert, Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Tel.: +49 (0) 3677 667 431-13
E-Mail: Johannes.Trabert@MetraLabs.com
Sitz: Am Vogelherd 22, D-98693 Ilmenau
Web: www.MetraLabs.com
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