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Robots in Supermarkets: A self-assistant culture or invasion of consumer privacy? By Aditya Abeysinghe     As retail giants soar with customers and aims to keep the balance between supply and demand a vital requirement of supermarket management has been to monitor and assist workers in their daily routines. Many surveillance equipment is widely used in supermarkets worldwide to assist monitoring processes but few have begun a new culture where robots are used not only as surveillance devices but also as assistants to both staff and customers.  Robots are currently used as assistants to look for occurrences of spills, uncleaned floors and direct customers around supermarkets. These robots go up and down store’s aisles and perform these tasks and alert staff members if any occurrences are found. Supermarket chains believe that this will increase the productivity of their daily functions by directing many supervisory tasks to robots.  Robots are used ...