Show Notes
What happens when AI stops living only on screens and starts measuring the physical world? In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Ben Bond of Simbe about physical AI, retail robotics, and how autonomous robots are already helping stores understand what is actually happening on their shelves. Simbe is focused on store intelligence through its shelf-scanning robot, Tally, a six-foot autonomous sensing robot used by major retailers across grocery, club, home improvement, and other high-volu...
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