Model-T
About
About Model-T
Model-T was Telexistence's 22-degree-of-freedom robot for remote convenience-store replenishment. Its body and arms were designed to handle merchandise in compact store layouts with limited changes to shelving and work areas. A combined suction and two-finger gripper handled products of different shapes without changing tools.
A VR interface mapped an operator's movement onto the robot, with low-latency video providing feedback. Telexistence measured approximately 50 milliseconds of end-to-end video delay under its test conditions, with actual latency depending on the network. The July 2020 launch targeted experimental stocking at FamilyMart and routine stocking at a Lawson concept store. Model-T represents an earlier teleoperated retail platform; Telexistence's later robot programmes develop greater autonomous control for retail and other physical work.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- Operating environments: FamilyMart Toshima Ecomusee Town store backroom
- Control modes: Teleoperation
- Material replenishment
Claimed - 2020-08-26 - Restock PET beverage bottles from a store backroom under remote VR operation. - environment: FamilyMart Toshima Ecomusee Town store backroom
Source
Context
Market context
Model-T is Telexistence's discontinued semi-autonomous retail robot for in-store shelf restocking.
- Target environment: Convenience stores, compact retail layouts and controlled in-store pilot environments.
- Workflow context: Shelf restocking, remote operation, semi-autonomous item handling and retail labor support.
- Customer context: Retailers, convenience-store operators and automation partners evaluating remote robotic labor for store operations.
- Deployment model: Historical prototype and pilot product that preceded Telexistence's later retail automation systems.
- Commercial maturity: Discontinued product with public pilot history and customer trials in Japan.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption was constrained by in-store integration, remote-operation economics, manipulation speed, reliability and retail workflow fit.
- Market position: Important early retail teleoperation robot that shaped Telexistence's later move toward fixed and newer store automation systems.
- Adjacent products: TX SCARA, TX Ghost, FamilyMart robots, Aitrios shelf analytics systems