Don't mind that robot following you in the produce aisle. That's Marty, and he means well.
Andy Callahan and his fellow engineers spent years building a robot that could roam grocery-store aisles counting soup cans and scanning for spills while dodging shopping carts. They named it Marty.
When a worker at a Giant supermarket in Harrisburg, Pa., stuck googly eyes on one of the robots, the engineers rolled their eyes. “We built this sophisticated piece of hardware,” says Mr. Callahan, a system architect for Badger Technologies of Nicholasville, Ky. “It just seems like it cheapens the whole thing.”
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