SpartanNash is expanding its use of Simbe Robotics systems to generate actionable, real-time inventory insights.

Retail robots can collect data in near real time and are gradually scaling in deployment, writes consultant Georges Mirza.

Hy-Vee is deploying Tally inventory scanning robots in stores in the mid-west.

In Episode 23 of The Robot Report Podcast, our editors discuss robotics in retail with the CEO of Simbe Robotics, autonomous vehicles in shipping yards with Outrider’s CEO, and some of the latest applications of the Spot quadruped.

Simbe Robotics said its Tally 3.0 autonomous mobile inventory robot includes updated sensors for greater autonomy, as well as cloud/edge data processing for retail intelligence.

Simbe Robotics has raised Series A funding and made a deal with SoftBank Robotics for the manufacture of more Tally retail inventory robots.