At the recent opening of Los Angeles’ latest train station, just a few miles from Lax, politicians and members of the media on the new train tracks, escalators, lifts and a shiny work of art, increased over the open air, increased mezzanine. At the bottom of all the shiny new infrastructure, another component of the station – a fully automated convenience business in which robots are used to give lemonades, snacks and little things to customers – solved numerous ooohs and aaahs.
The light blue “Smart Store”, which is known as a Venhub, works 24 hours a day without human employees and is only accessible via a downloadable app. As soon as an order has been placed, robots absorb the objects with suction cups or finger -like grinders and place them in delivery windows. With a warning in the app, you know that your purchase is finished and a QR code opens the window.
Shachan Ohanessian, CEO of Venhub, says Entertainment Scroll, that the robots, Barb and Peter are designed as co-pilots after two of his friends who support each other.
“If Peter does not go well because of a software problem, he will rest and take over Barb,” says Ohanessian.
Water, soda, ice cream coffee, chips, nuts, fruit and sweets are available in venhubs, as well as toothpaste, tylenol, tampons, razors, emergen-C and even earpods and telephone loading devices. Venhubs lack of human work in the kiosks seems to be at lower costs for customers, for example a Fidji water bottle for $ 1.39, a Starbucks Frappuccino for 1.89 US dollars, Nature Valley Granola bars for $ 4.99 and even a USB cable for $ 5.99.
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Ohanessian admits that his product replaces human jobs, but also believes new ones. In addition to the employees who manage the robots and automation, the human workers fill up the venous hubs again if necessary, he says.
“The shop contains a lot of AI and technology behind it,” says Ohanessian, “(the technology will) say (headquarters of the company), ‘Hey, we need more water or yogurt.'”
Venhub’s technology extends to its security protection, which includes cameras, sensors and ballproof glass.
Ohanessian, a former manager of Amazon Logistics, who started developing the idea for Venhub four years ago, says that his kiosks are the future of small shops, not only in busy places such as Big City Airports, but also in places where retail options are missing.
“In Texas there are some locations (considering) where it is a small community, but they just don’t have a supermarket,” says Ohanessian.
Other Venhubs are currently scattered in the Greater Los Angeles, where Venhub is headquartered. However, the company has extensions for Las Vegas and the east coast (announces the company’s website that the kiosks “are so constructed that they can withstand extreme weather conditions”). Ohanessian also hopes to make them omnipresent in the country’s airports and to work with the transit agency of Los Angeles to add more venous hubs in the growing (mostly accepted) rail system.
“We are experiencing the story, the first airport to see the first unattended smart store,” said Ohanessian when his robots took off potato chips and water bottles. “Here the world will go in the coming years.”
