Can Robots Refill a Supermarket Shelf?: Motion Planning and Grasp Control

Robots are becoming more widely used in the retail market, mostly for warehousing, but many in-store logistics processes are still difficult to automate. Both technological and methodological barriers hinder the use of robots for handling single products rather than the boxes containing them, as the experiences of the various editions of the Amazon Challenge demonstrated.

Robots are becoming more widely used in the retail market, mostly for warehousing, but many in-store logistics processes are still difficult to automate. Both technological and methodological barriers hinder the use of robots for handling single products rather than the boxes containing them, as the experiences of the various editions of the Amazon Challenge demonstrated.