QRunning claims it is the concept of an innovative shoe shop. Here buying shoes is now a relaxed event, while robots do the work and do this in front of an audience. Watch others working – it’s possible in the sports shoe store QRunning. Here, you can watch robots seek out the right shoes in the right size from thousands of shoe boxes in a store and give them to the customers to try on.
The store is laid out like an arena: there is a lounge area in the middle. Here you can try on shoes, browse through digital ranges, talk shop and watch the robots.
The robots are busy in the background in openly visible goods stores – there where the audience is seated in an arena – with seeking out the models and sizes ordered by the visitors via pressing a button or QR scan. After locating, grasping – the robot can carry six to eight shoe boxes – and handing out the models precisely, the robot retreats to give the customer room to try on shoes. And take the chosen models to the cash desk or even again scan other models – it’s guaranteed that he or she will not encounter unfriendly sales staff, because the robots are markedly patient…
The model format QRunning was developed by K.U.L.T.OBJEKT Marken- und Erlebnisarchitektur. The pick and pack robots Toru Cube come from the start up robotics company Magazino from Munich, with whom a cooperation agreement was concluded. Toru Cube is capable of navigating freely in a charted store and, thanks to safety sensor technology, cannot only react to obstacles but also operate safely with people in the same work area.
The complete concept is presented at the EuroShop at the K.U.L.T.OBJEKT stand in Halle 10 / G42.
Images:© K.U.L.T.OBJEKT
