Today, robotic equipment is an integral part of our lives. Far the concept of drones, self-driving robots that deliver food right to your door, has become a reality. Now you no longer need to go to the store. Instead, he comes to you.
Moby Mart — the first mobile supermarket that you can call on the phone. No more cashiers or checkpoints. Instead, members scan their purchases from the shelf and pay for them in the app on your smartphone. The sellers in the form of holograms will assist while shopping and shop will find you anywhere. He will be able to navigate through the busy streets. The device runs on electricity and on solar energy with backup battery and built-in air scrubbers to clean the air around.
Using microdrones the store of the future will be able to deliver products from door to door or window if you live on the 12th floor. And if a few Moby Marts will be in one place, machines will be able to share information with each other and even goods.
This is not just a concept. The prototype Moby Mart already operates in Shanghai, through the joint efforts of the University of Hefei in China, and the Swiss company Wheelys, which specializiruetsya on mobile devices such as a coffee shop on wheels.
According to Per Cromwell, lead designer, Moby Mart is part of a larger project to radically change the nature of retail.
He said: «Stores have to be more versatile and more productive to meet future challenges. For the best seats will increase rents, because of online trading reduces the profit on many products. Such mobile shop – a new sustainable solution in this area.»
Cromwell said that next year plans to release four to six Moby Marts, and in 2018 production will increase to hundreds. The idea is to introduce Moby Marts in towns and cities and continuously update a mobile supermarket along with related technologies like self-driving vehicles, artificial intelligence, non-cash payments and solar generators.
As long as the supermarkets did not appear in our cities, there are still technical difficulties. But if Moby Mart will really come to your town, the first wave of stores will specialize in products for immediate consumption, such as prepared food and coffee, and then gradually introduce new products.
