Morrisons has unveiled its newest staff members - in the form of aisle-roaming robots. The retail giant is trialling'Tally' robots at three stores in Wetherby, Redcar and Stockton, to monitor how products are being displayed on shelves. Using advanced AI and computer vision technology, Tally is designed to spot out-of-stock items, pricing errors, and misplaced products. Morrisons' technology manager, Katherine Allanach, called this a'crucial' role. 'It is a crucial but time-consuming task and so Tally aims to allow more time for colleagues to focus on customer service,' she told The Grocer.

There is an inescapable long-tailed class-imbalance issue in many real-world classification problems. Current methods for addressing this problem only consider scenarios where all examples come from the same distribution. However, in many cases, there are multiple domains with distinct class imbalance. We study this multi-domain long-tailed learning problem and aim to produce a model that generalizes well across all classes and domains. Towards that goal, we introduce TALLY, a method that addresses this multi-domain long-tailed learning problem. Built upon a proposed selective balanced sampling strategy, TALLY achieves this by mixing the semantic representation of one example with the domain-associated nuisances of another, producing a new representation for use as data augmentation. To improve the disentanglement of semantic representations, TALLY further utilizes a domain-invariant class prototype that averages out domain-specific effects. We evaluate TALLY on several benchmarks and real-world datasets and find that it consistently outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in both subpopulation and domain shift. Our code and data have been released at https://github.com/huaxiuyao/TALLY.

The National Labor Relations Board mailed out ballots to quality assurance testers who were with the company during the pay period ending April 16. While the number of Raven quality assurance testers has held steady at around 30 employees, the composition of the team has changed over the course of the five-month unionization effort. Since the 12 QA testers were let go in December, Activision hired nine testers who are now eligible to vote. This led to some scrambling on the potential union's part to recruit the new hires, Raven workers told The Post.

Inside a Schnucks grocery store in St. Louis, Missouri, the toilet paper and baking ingredients are mostly cleared out. A rolling robot turns a corner and heads down an aisle stocked with salsa and taco shells. It comes up against a masked customer wearing shorts and sneakers; he's pushing a shopping cart carrying bread. The robot looks something like a tower speaker on top of an autonomous home vacuum cleaner--tall and thin, with orb-like screen eyes halfway up that shift left and right. A red sign on its long head makes the introductions.

"Robotics technology is rapidly moving out of the lab and into the real world." As society looks for ways to reduce human exposure to novel coronavirus, digital technology has emerged front stage center. Computers, smartphones, videoconferencing tools and cloud-based services have curtailed the need for people to congregate, and risk becoming sick or dying. Yet, for many tasks -- tending to patients in hospitals, managing grocery stores, delivering food -- social distancing is not an option. Human workers can't escape the risk of being exposed to COVID-19.

A desktop game aimed at helping children see the importance of social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic has racked up 10,000 plays in its first two days. 'Can You Save the World?', co-developed by a UK-based professor of psychology, is a vertically scrolling video game where players are tasked with walking through a virtual city while social distancing. Players are tasked with collecting and depositing personal protective equipment (PPE) for NHS workers while avoiding other people and saving lives. The family-friendly educational game, which was released last Friday, helps players of all ages become better at social distancing in the real world during the coronavirus pandemic. Players have to control an avatar to collect PPE while avoiding other people's two-metre infection radius Co-designer Professor Richard Wiseman from the University of Hertfordshire said he was inspired by the tricky task of keeping his distance while outside.

It can travel more than 25,000 miles alongside customers, work more than 100,000 hours, and check up to 30,000 products an hour. It takes its time strolling through the aisles. Moving at the same speed of a small child but heavy enough that it cannot easily topple over, Tally the robot can audit stock keeping units with 97 percent accuracy. Meanwhile it would take humans a full week to do the same amount of work and results as Tally with only 65 percent accuracy. Who wouldn't want Tally, or a similar robot, in their stores?

Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and other forms of smart automation have revolutionised the present and future of work. These technologies have the potential to bring great economic benefits, contributing up to $15 trillion to global GDP by 2030, according to a PwC report on the impact of automation. The UAE has been at the forefront of using AI to streamline processes through its National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2031. The country appointed the world's first Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence in 2017. Last week, UAE capital Abu Dhabi announced the establishment of the Mohammad Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, the first graduate level, research-based artificial intelligence university in the world.

Walk into the Decathlon sporting goods store on Market Street in San Francisco and you will find yourself face to face with Tally. She is tall and slender, and has a winning smile--she smiles with her eyes. She is gentle and considerate: if you get in her way, she will quietly glide around you without complaining. She is extremely intelligent and highly efficient: as she moves up and down the aisles, she takes a real-time inventory of the products on the shelves and racks, checking which products are running low or out of stock, and whether they are labeled with the correct price. She can read RFID tags, but she can also use AI-powered image recognition to distinguish different products at a glance.

Tally roams the aisles of several Schnuck Markets making sure that inventory stays stocked so customers can find what they need. Windows that allow you to tap and shop while the store is closed. You don't have to wait on the store of the future. Retailers ramped up the tech this holiday season, offering mobile checkout and apps that pinpoint the exact spot to find the toy you were looking for. But the bells and whistles are more than a seasonal perk.