| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To greatly improve the convenience of merchandise purchase by allowing a customer to be automatically guided on the basis of a purchase list only by putting a portable terminal over a robot in a store about a guide robot and a guide method for guiding the customer for shopping in the store. <P>SOLUTION: The guide robot is provided with a means for reading person-specific information from a person specifying means when the customer puts the person specifying means over or approaches the robot installed in the store, a means for making an inquiry to download a customer purchase list registered in a server or downloading the purchase list when registered in the person specifying means on the basis of the read person-specific information, a means for determining a purchase route in the store on the basis of the downloaded customer purchase list, and a means for moving the robot to guide the customer according to the determined purchase route. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT |
