Transform Your Retail Operations with Intelligent Automation

Enhance customer experience and optimize inventory management with autonomous retail robots

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In retail, orientation, availability, and speed shape both customer experience and operational efficiency. shoppiOS connects robotics with your product and store data so customers quickly find what they need — while teams spend less time on routine questions and manual inventory work.

  • Find products faster with guided wayfinding to the right department
  • Voice and touch interaction for recurring customer questions
  • Product database as the source of truth for precise location guidance
  • Central, multi-site management (cloud operation supported)
  • Integrations with your existing retail systems

How shoppiOS Works

1

Understand the request

A customer asks for a product via voice or touch (e.g., 'banana').

2

Match product data

shoppiOS looks up the item in the product database and maps it to a category and location.

3

Trigger wayfinding

The robot navigates to the relevant area (e.g., fruit & vegetables) and guides the customer there.

4

Support the interaction

Depending on the setup, the robot can display additional information (e.g., variants, hints, availability) and completes the route.

5

Improve with insights

Requests, routes, and usage signals can be used for optimization, content, and reporting.

Key Capabilities

Autonomous Navigation

Your robot navigates independently through your store, avoiding obstacles and adapting to changing layouts in real-time.

Smart Inventory Management

You gain real-time visibility into stock levels, shelf gaps, and misplaced items—automating tedious inventory tasks.

Customer Interaction

Your customers receive personalized assistance, product information, and store navigation through intuitive robot interfaces.

Retail Analytics

You access detailed insights on customer behavior, product placement effectiveness, and operational efficiency.

System Integration

Your existing POS, inventory management, and CRM systems connect seamlessly with the retail robot platform.

Multi-Store Management

You manage robots across multiple store locations from a single centralized dashboard.

Integrations & Compatibility

Robot Hardware

Designed for operating retail assistant robots; extensions are possible via interfaces.

  • Assistant robots with navigation and interaction
  • Touchscreen and sensor integration
  • Voice interaction (optional, setup dependent)
  • Remote operations, monitoring, and updates

Store Infrastructure

Works with typical retail setups; maps and POIs can be maintained and updated.

  • Store mapping (zones, POIs, departments)
  • Charging station management
  • Wi-Fi / network connectivity
  • Safety and operating parameters

IT Systems

shoppiOS ties product information to wayfinding and supports integration into your stack.

  • Product databases (PIM) and item data
  • Inventory / ERP systems (optional)
  • POS / pricing systems (optional)
  • Analytics / reporting tools and APIs

Deployment & Operations

shoppiOS is typically designed for cloud operation to manage content, configurations, and updates centrally across sites. Operations and privacy measures are aligned with your requirements.

  • Cloud operation for central multi-site management
  • Roles and permissions (RBAC) for teams and operators
  • Monitoring, alerting, and remote support
  • Content and data maintenance for products, POIs, and routes
  • Automated updates and lifecycle management
  • Service and support options

Security & Privacy

shoppiOS supports secure retail operations. Security and privacy controls depend on the data types and configuration in your setup.

  • Encrypted transport and secured interfaces
  • Granular roles, permissions, and logging
  • GDPR-compliant operation (configuration and context dependent)
  • Data minimization (collect only what the use case requires)
  • Operational controls for updates and access protection
  • Governed integration rights (APIs, webhooks)

Built on a proven platform

shoppiOS leverages Athegus' Axiona technology as the foundation for robot orchestration and integration logic.

It connects robotics operations with product data — designed around real interactions and store processes.

Success can be measured through concrete operational signals (e.g., usage, requests, routes, conversion-proximate interactions) and improved iteratively.

Transparency that matters in retail

Ecosystem coverage, partner capability, and product-data navigation — clearly documented.

Broad integration coverage

Multiple robot models and elevator controllers are integrated and reproducibly deployable across projects.

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Partnership with retail expertise

shoppiOS is developed as a joint venture with Smartricity — Athegus provides robotics logic, Smartricity adds data and retail expertise.

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Product-data-based navigation

Customer queries are matched against the product database, location and category are determined, and the robot guides directly to the target area.

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Your Path to Implementation

1

Define use cases

Which questions should the robot answer, which areas should it cover, and what targets matter?

2

Prepare data & mapping

Product data, categories, and POIs are aligned and mapped to the store layout.

3

Integration & setup

Systems, content, roles, and policies are configured; monitoring is enabled.

4

Pilot & refinement

Test interactions, improve content, and tune routing and guidance.

5

Rollout & operations

Scale to more areas/sites, establish reporting, and continuously optimize.

Let's pilot shoppiOS in your store

We'll show how product data, voice/touch interaction, and wayfinding work together in a single solution.

Joint Venture: Retail automation with Smartricity

shoppiOS is built in partnership with Smartricity: Athegus provides the robotics and integration layer, while Smartricity contributes retail data and domain expertise. Together, we translate product information into precise wayfinding and scalable operations.