Shopper Robot

Shopping agents in grocery stores today are human beings and are very specialized in their tasks and working hours. Persons with reduced mobility do not directly benefit from human agents as stores indent to increase revenue than increase customer experience of a minor group with accessibility requirements. Persons with reduced mobility, hence, are forced to drive motorized shopping carts. Another trend in the retail industry is to use video feeds from static CCTV cameras to assist in retail analytics, especially in stock and product placement monitoring. A mobile service robot can collect additional video feeds for this. We are prototyping a service robot through Reinforcement Learning and Machine Vision, with simulations on Nvidia Isaac Sim.