Nicholasville, Kentucky-based Badger Technologies, a division of Jabil Inc., has launched the Badger Technologies Digital Teammate solution platform.
The platform is powered by Badger Technologies’ next-generation autonomous robot with capabilities that enhance employee productivity through mobile data and analytics, computer vision and artificial intelligence.
The Badger Technologies Digital Teammate solution combines the power of software and hardware to support a business’s workforce with improved inventory management capabilities, planogram compliance, hazard detection, pricing accuracy and security monitoring.
The platform complements Badger Technologies’ solutions by incorporating RFID detection, enabling advertising through retail media networks and expanding the company’s data and analytics platform.
Through the mobile app, employees from associates to the c-suite have access to prioritized tasks, data and insights.
“Badger Technologies’ robots seamlessly integrate computer vision and artificial intelligence to work as a Badger Technologies Digital Teammate alongside employees in complex environments,” said Emil Martinez, CEO of Badger Technologies.
“These robots can extend staff operations and produce critical data that increase efficiencies and improve shopping experiences, creating long-lasting value for our customers.”
Among the technologies’ benefits are enhanced food safety protocols that protect consumers from potentially harmful expired products and the reduction of costly food waste, which impacts both business profitability and environmental sustainability.
In addition, the autonomous robots within the Badger Technologies Digital Teammate platform can also scan shelves to identify out-of-stock items and pricing inconsistencies with accuracy.
The robot’s integrated customer-facing tablet can serve as an interactive guide, providing personalized assistance such as directions to product locations or other site-specific guidance and customized offers.
Badger Technologies has deployed more than 1,000 multipurpose, autonomous robots that have traveled millions of miles at grocery, hardware and home improvement retailers around the U.S. to support inventory management.
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