Telexistence's TX-SCARA is designed to fill Japan's labor shortage, but its implications are much larger than that.
with the Japanese convenience store chain, FamilyMart, earlier today. The new partnership will see new workers arriving in 300 major metropolitan locations later this month—a fleet of robotic arms tasked solely with reshelving the minimarts’ refrigerated products.
The TX-SCARA is an autonomous restock bot capable of moving items from storage to fridge shelves, and was reportedly designed to help address the country’s ongoing labor shortage issues. “The decline in Japan’s labor population is one of the key management issues for FamilyMart to continue stable store operations,” said, FamilyMart’s general manager, “The newly created time can be reallocated to customer service and shop floor enhancement.
Should things go awry behind-the-scenes, the TX-SCARA will also be able to fallback on human employees who remotely control the arms until the issue is addressed, although Telexistence vows the robots can operate autonomously up to 98-percent of the time.
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