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Gather AI secures new cash to scan inventory in warehouses using drones

TechCrunch

The trio had the idea to use drones to gather data — specifically data in warehouses, such as the number of items on a shelf and the locations of particular pallets. Arora co-founded Gather AI in 2019 with Daniel Maturana and Geetesh Dubey, graduate students at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute.

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Extra Crunch roundup: cohort analysis, YC Demo Day recaps, building your supply chain

TechCrunch

To compete with retail banks, many newcomers are offering customers credit and debit cards ; developer-friendly APIs make issuance relatively easy, and tools for managing processes like KYC are available off the shelf. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Senior Editor, TechCrunch.

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New Zealand-based Imagr thinks camera-based AI is the future of shopping trolleys

TechCrunch

With COVID, I think what you probably saw was a huge rush on supermarkets that really exposed a number of things retailers weren’t prepared for,” Will Chomley, CEO and co-founder, told TechCrunch. “It Imagr, which recently had a pop-up shop in London to demonstrate its tech, is currently raising its Series A after it raised $9.5

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Dent Reality raises $3.4M to bring augmented reality into the grocery store

TechCrunch

Despite Apple and Facebook investing billions into a “metaverse” future, in recent years there’s been a distinct drop-off in venture deals for startups focused on finding opportunities in augmented reality. AR capabilities allow users to hold their phone up to chart a path to the object of their desire.

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Pickle launches its truck unloading robot arm

TechCrunch

Retailers who can’t match those once impossible speeds are destined to fall behind — and doing so requires robots. The system is built around a modified Kuka arm, with an off-the shelf head that has been customized to create what amounts to a large, foam-tipped vacuum head, using pneumatic suction to pick up objects up to 65 pounds.

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Nvidia offers retail loss prevention software to accelerate accelerator chip sales

CIO

GPU manufacturer Nvidia is expanding its enterprise software offering with three new AI workflows for retailers it hopes will also drive sales of its hardware accelerators. Nvidia isn’t packaging these workflows as off-the-shelf applications, however. The workflows are built on Nvidia’s existing AI technology platform.

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Unified commerce elevates customer experience for Hippo Stores

CIO

One of the biggest challenges confronting retailers today is ensuring convergence between customers’ traditional in-store shopping experience and their digital journey, thereby delivering a seamless customer experience (CX). For brick-and-mortar stores, legacy technologies often make migrating online difficult.