Autonomous Carts Make the Easiest Part of Shopping Even Easier

The best part of grocery shopping is n’t finding some exotic new sapidity of yogurt or the free samples , it ’s tooling around the store like a rally car driver with your shopping go-cart . So why have researchers developed anautonomous human - tracking cartthat watch over you around the store ? Seems like time better spent do checkout time lane less terrible .

That being said , it ’s operose not to get mad about a shopping cart that utilize a Kinect and various other sensors to stay a few feet behind you as you wander through a fund . grow by students at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology , it unfortunately does n’t look like the cart is smart enough to enamor particular that you ’ve randomly tossed in the air as you meander down a store gangway , but for sure that feature of speech is still in development .

However , as wondrous as these technologically - enhanced carts might seem , there ’s no way grocery memory board are going to loan them out to shopper for just a quarter . So they might end up being a BYO matter . [ YouTubeviaDamn Geeky ]