softbank robotics has been busy snapping up robotics companies around the world.ics, whose bots probably won't be, shall we say, customer—facing. softbank‘s latest venture is tally here — a robot which patrols a shop, looking at how much stock there is on the shelves so it can be better controlled. it's slowly starting to roll out in shops across the us and in the future, this stock information could be used by our friend pepper in store, who can push products at you that the store wants to shift. while you wait, jolena, other users who bought this t—shirt also bought these items. according to softbank‘s chief strategy officer, that's something that we all want. where do you stand on the robots taking our jobs idea? i mean, what we're talking about here is robots doing jobs that had previously been done by humans. well, i think that's not entirely accurate. so what you're seeing is robots doing tasks that people are forced to do because it's part and parcel of their day—to—day activity. you know, 25—26% of a typical retail worker's day is spent doing banal tasks.