I was in BevMo a few weeks back and there was a similar robot. It had a screen on the front to look up what you’re searching for and it would bring you to it.
I decided to give it a try since I was trying to find watermelon flavored liquor for the SO. I found some pre-mixed watermelon margarita on the screen and then it proceeded to bring me to the right spot....or at least it tried.
On the way to the aisle and shelf, it clipped the corner of a chest-height shelf rack knocking over a ton of whiskey on the top shelf shattering on the ground.
It was seemingly unphased by hitting the shelf, but right after ran straight into a ceiling height rack of shelves knocking over bottles of tequila.
It just stayed there with its face buried in the shelves and simply said, “Can I help you find anything else?”, despite not being where the pre-mixed margaritas were.
There was a single employee there working the register. When the whiskey crashed, everyone in the store just watched and then when it crashed into the tequila, the employee looked at the mess from behind the register, sighed, and then just continued ringing people up. This clearly wasn’t the first time she’s witnessed this thing make absolute chaos.
I’ve yet to go back to BevMo since then, but I imagine they’ve gotten rid of it.
I decided to give it a try since I was trying to find watermelon flavored liquor for the SO. I found some pre-mixed watermelon margarita on the screen and then it proceeded to bring me to the right spot....or at least it tried.
On the way to the aisle and shelf, it clipped the corner of a chest-height shelf rack knocking over a ton of whiskey on the top shelf shattering on the ground.
It was seemingly unphased by hitting the shelf, but right after ran straight into a ceiling height rack of shelves knocking over bottles of tequila.
It just stayed there with its face buried in the shelves and simply said, “Can I help you find anything else?”, despite not being where the pre-mixed margaritas were.
There was a single employee there working the register. When the whiskey crashed, everyone in the store just watched and then when it crashed into the tequila, the employee looked at the mess from behind the register, sighed, and then just continued ringing people up. This clearly wasn’t the first time she’s witnessed this thing make absolute chaos.
I’ve yet to go back to BevMo since then, but I imagine they’ve gotten rid of it.