Marty is just the most visible example of new technology rolling out at Stop & Shop. Hazard detected,” Marty says, playing the pre-recorded message in English and Spanish.Ī Stop & Shop employee scoops up the tag and presses a button to send Marty on his way. The worker looks at the picture to confirm the problem, then Marty alerts customers and store employees. The robot's cameras take a picture, which is then sent to a worker hundreds of miles away at a facility run by the company TaskUs. Marty, a six-foot-tall pillar with googly eyes, roams the stores, beeping gently as it scans the floor for trash and spills.Īt a Stop & Shop in Quincy, Marty spots a fallen price tag in front of a shelf of Easter candy. Stop & Shop's parent company, the Dutch food retailer Ahold Delhaize, has started deploying robots named Marty to more than 100 Massachusetts locations. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 2 years old. Stop & Shop’s autonomous robot “Marty” patrols a food aisle at the store in Clinton, Conn.
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