Fellow Robots
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About Fellow Robots
Fellow Robots developed mobile retail robots that combined autonomous navigation, product search and customer interaction. OSHbot and LoweBot used lidar and vision to move through store aisles, display product information and guide shoppers to selected items. Inventory configurations also scanned shelving to identify missing, misplaced or incorrectly priced stock.
The company worked with Orchard Supply Hardware and Lowe’s on regional pilot deployments in the United States. These programmes tested robots as a customer-service and inventory-data layer inside live retail environments. Fellow Robots did not establish an enduring chain-wide operating fleet and later ceased active operations, making the company a historical retail-robotics developer.
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Events
- 2016-08-30 - Partnership - Fellow Robots and Lowes announce LoweBot retail programme
The rollout was scheduled to begin in San Jose in September and continue over seven months. The robot was designed to guide shoppers to products and scan shelf inventory, building on the earlier OSHbot pilot.
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- LoweBot expanded an earlier store pilot but never became a continuing chain-wide Lowe’s robot programme
reviewed 2026-07-20 - Lowe’s progressed from the OSHbot experiment to a seven-month LoweBot deployment across 11 Bay Area stores, using Fellow Robots’ NAVii platform. The programme remained an innovation pilot and did not become a permanent national fleet. Demonstrations and multi-store testing therefore show operational experimentation, not commercial adoption at Lowe’s full scale.
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