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(1 Sep 2022)
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Tokyo - 26 August 2022
1. Drinks section at FamilyMart convenience store with robot TX SCARA restocking drinks
HEADLINE: Robot lends a hand at Japanese convenience store
2. Wide of drinks section
4. Tilt up of TX SCARA
ANNOTATION: FamilyMart hopes to tackle the labor shortage issue in Japan with the help of robots with artificial intelligence.
4. Various of TX SCARA restocking drinks
ANNOTATION:  A robot called TX SCARA is FamilyMart's latest robotic employee, helping to restock drinks for customers.
ANNOTATION: Telexistence, creator of TX SCARA, says it can restock 1,000 bottles and cans in a day, relieving human workers of the mundane task.
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jin Tomioka, Chief Executive, Telexistence:
"So our goal as a company is to give a hardcore smack down to repetitive work done by humans right now. So we want to automate all the job, all the repetitive jobs, boring jobs done by humans, so that is the direction we are going and the best way to do that is to use a robot and machine learning, A.I."
6. Various of Tomioka and Executive Officer of FamilyMart, Tomohiro Kano,
ANNOTATION: Japan's labor shortage is reaching a crisis, expected to hit 5 million workers by 2025, and exceed 6 million people by 2030, according to a study.
7. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Tomohiro Kano, Executive Officer, FamilyMart:
"The robots have already started refilling beverages, so the staff don't have to do that work so they can change their work schedules quite efficiently."
8. Mid of self register section
ANNOTATION: Robots can also help to reduce infection risk in the pandemic era.
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Tartu, Estonia – 26 August 2022
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Raul Vicente, Professor of Data Science at University of Tartu:
"The first thing that they can do in order to help curb the pandemics is of course to reduce the number of interactions between people. And that of course can reduce the spreading of any infectious disease and that's the main way robots can help us curve the pandemics."
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Tokyo - 26 August 2022
10. Mid of TX SCARA restocking drinks
ANNOTATION: TX SCARA has already rolled out in 300 stores and could expand to all 16,000 FamilyMart's in Japan.
STORYLINE:
A small robot with a clip-like hand and enough smarts to know which drinks are popular is part of an effort to make convenience stores even more convenient.
On a recent day in Tokyo, the robot named TX SCARA slid back and forth behind the refrigerated shelves in the back of a FamilyMart store.
The hand on the end of its mechanical arm grasped a bottle or can from the stacks to the side, then the robot slides to the right spot and placed the drink on the shelf — in a place chosen after its artificial intelligence and tiny cameras matched the kind of beverage to what's running short.
TX SCARA is filling a needed role in Japan's "conbini," as the ubiquitous tiny stores selling snacks, drinks and knick-knacks are called.
Most such stores are open 24-seven, filled with 3,000 kinds of products, but have relatively few workers. The beverage shelves in the back are farthest from the cash register, keeping workers running back and forth.
And the beverage space is refrigerated, uncomfortably cold for people to stay there too many hours.
TX SCARA, which goes at an undisclosed price, can restock up to 1,000 bottles and cans a day.
Its artificial intelligence, called "GORDON," knows when and where products need to be placed on shelves, according to Tokyo-based Telexistence, which created TX SCARA.
   
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