Robot on aisle 7: Customers react to autonomous inventory machine roaming a Seattle grocery store

Tally, an inventory robot, scans shelves at a Fred Meyer store in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Shoppers navigating aisles of chips and cookies at a Fred Meyer store in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood are dodging more than carts — they’re also sharing space with a smooth-gliding, autonomous robot named Tally. Equipped with an array of cameras, computer vision and AI, the slender machine pauses briefly near display shelves before beeping like a grocery-focus