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An Autonomous Robot
as your Grocery
Shopping Assistant
Say goodbye to the conventional push and pull
shopping cart as Kartum by Charles Bombardier
has revolutionized your weekly shopping
experience.
Kartum is an electric autonoumous shopping cart
that is also a virtual grocery-shopping assistant.
It has features that will pick up the items in your
shopping list that you can create via an online
application, monitor your items that will be over
your budget and even calculate the calories in
your items. It can even plan the best itinerary
in the store which can link up with the store’s
database to identify location of the products.
This ‘smart shopping cart’ also eliminates the
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need to stop at the counter as you can pay by
using your digital print. Once you unload the
items from the cart, it will proceed with the next
customer in sight.
There is no need to plug Kartum in as it recharges
itself with wireless electricity. It walks along with
you based on the user’s preferences, may it be
behind or just ahead of you.
Bet that this will make you want to visit the
grocery stores even more.
Photo by Charles Bombardier