Shopping assistance and information providing integrated in a robotic shopping cart

Abstract

This paper presents a robotic shopping cart for a shopping mall to provide shopping assistance and information. When customers login to the shopping cart system, the information providing is first started to provide directions and recommendations of the shopping mall. In addition, the robotic shopping cart is developed to be autonomous returning to starting position while customers logout from the service screen. Finally, the purchase record of customers can be send to the centralized system of shopping mall for further analysis of various shopping behaviors.