Simbe Robotics has raised Series A funding and made a deal with SoftBank Robotics for the manufacture of more Tally retail inventory robots.
Tally trials begin in Giant Eagle stores, as Simbe aims inventory robot at global grocers
Simbe Robotics, which already supplies a dozen retailers worldwide, recently began a pilot with U.S. grocer Giant Eagle. The Tally autonomous mobile robot is designed to gather inventory data, helping to make store teams more efficient.
Simbe Robotics shelf-scanning robot adds RFID, machine learning
Simbe Robotics announced this week integration of RFID and machine learning into its Tally shelf-scanning mobile robots. Tally now captures more than 700 RFID product tags per second with higher than 99% accuracy, according to the company. So Tally can now determine inventory levels for products that use RFID or that don’t sit on a standard…
Simbe Robotics and Softbank partner on retail robots
Simbe Robotics, the creator of the Tally shelf-scanning robot, has partnered with Softbank Robotics America to expand deployments of Tally. Softbank will initially help expand Tally in Europe, Japan and North America. If all goes well, it will then help Simbe Robotics commercialize Tally more broadly. Retailers are starting to embrace in-store technology to try to…