This is how artificial intelligence is going to transform brick-and-mortar retail

Jonas Cleveland is making science fiction a reality. The company he founded and leads, COSY, designs robots that can provide real-time data to retailers about their products on store shelves, saving time, money and frustration for employees and shoppers. "If you work in retail, the thing that you hate doing most is having to walk around at the end of the day with a clipboard and marking off where products are located throughout the store," Cleveland said. "These are all good things for a robot to do. That's the space where we play."