Sensei, the leading European provider of autonomous store technology, has launched its ‘Dojo’, the most sophisticated autonomous retail environment in the world. With a total space of 500sq m, it is the largest fully autonomous store in Europe.
Created in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the new facility in Lisbon, Portugal, is a first-of-its-kind test lab. Not open to the public, the showcase store provides a cutting-edge retail environment for Sensei and its partners to develop and test new autonomous store technologies. The technology behind the Dojo is scalable for retail spaces ranging from 150sq m to 1,500sq m.
Sensei’s Dojo recreates all the features typically found in grocery stores worldwide so it can rigorously test and showcase its vision of autonomous retail in the most realistic environment possible. The size of the store demonstrates the scalability of autonomous store technology and allows for the inclusion and testing of innovations that further improve on the friction-free shopping experience. These new features include gateless entry and exit, and an automatic card payment terminal where purchases are displayed in real-time at the end of a shop, so customers can shop without using an app.
