AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
KEYWORDS
shopping experience, Grocery Shopping, Autonomous Vehicles
COUNTRY
China
DESIGNED BY
Wheelys
WEBSITE
https://themobymart.com/
moby mart
the world's first unmanned store
A Swedish startup and a Chinese university have produced an autonomous shop that's designed to travel to customers. The Moby Mart, created by Wheelys, Hefei University of Technology and tech firm Himalafy, has been dubbed 'the supermarket that comes to you'.
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"The Moby Mart offers products for immediate consumption, such as milk, lunch, or medicine over the counter, around the clock," its creators say. "Just enter the store, take what you need, and leave".
The prototype, which the organisations have beta testing on the streets of Shanghai, is currently moved around by humans but the creators say future versions will use computer vision to navigate the streets and come to customers.