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Focus on Business

Focus on Business: Robot On Aisle Four

WEKU | By Tom Martin

Published December 17, 2018 at 1:29 PM EST

Robotic store assistants are coming to some major east coast supermarket chains. They're manufactured in Nicholasville, Kentucky where Tim Rowland is CEO. Tom Martin talked with Rowland about automation, artificial intelligence, and data gathering and analysis by machines operating in retail spaces where they must interact with shoppers.

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Tom Martin talks with Badger Technologies CEO Tim Rowland about the role of artificial intelligence in retail robotics

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