Robot Stacks Supermarket Shelves In Japan

Robots are being used to stack shelves at corner shops in Japan - keeping staff safe from Covid-19. The FamilyMart chain showed off their first robot shop assistant, named Famima, in one of their stores in Tokyo on August 26. It was developed by the Japanese robotics firm Telexistence to handle bottles and cups of ramen noodles. Famima can take over the laborious duties of stacking shelves and re-organising the displayed producrs. However, the robot cannot yet work fully on its own as it is controll