I can’t for the life of me understand how vision related tasks should be done by roving versus fixed cameras.
Even if you need higher resolution than you can get from a wide field of view, a fixed camera that can pan and zoom then?
The only thing I can think of is there’s zero upfront installation cost, no need for a crew to wire anything. Ship the robot, plug in the charging station, and it’s off?
Maybe the ancillary reduction in shoplifting, even if it’s not actually designed to monitor that, pays for the robot.
Dense shelving can have a lot of blindspots, that's one of the reason those Amazon stores are absolutely plastered in ceiling cameras; that being said 700 CCTV cameras would probably still end up cheaper than the proprietary robotics system it seems they are using now
Even if you need higher resolution than you can get from a wide field of view, a fixed camera that can pan and zoom then?
The only thing I can think of is there’s zero upfront installation cost, no need for a crew to wire anything. Ship the robot, plug in the charging station, and it’s off?
Maybe the ancillary reduction in shoplifting, even if it’s not actually designed to monitor that, pays for the robot.