{"id":37115,"date":"2018-11-29T07:28:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T23:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=37115"},"modified":"2018-11-29T15:36:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T07:36:48","slug":"ai-robot-concierge-coming-soon-to-sm-supermalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/11\/29\/ai-robot-concierge-coming-soon-to-sm-supermalls\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Robot Concierge Coming Soon to SM Supermalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">SM shoppers will soon be able to ask a robot for mall directions as\u00a0<strong>SM Supermalls<\/strong>, the biggest shopping mall chain in the Philippines, has recently\u00a0previewed two robots equipped with Artificial Intelligence (AI)\u00a0able to provide mall information, promos, and events to customers.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/smsupermalls\/videos\/259127918103860\/?__xts__[0]=68.ARB2DTtaIKcAgapF2CLNX3YiMaw6m6lTKK8dLLidIcL95WJUEw7M7pLo9nkk21vSar-ZKW4ZS0fO0_FsRc6nY8VHTi2sFEn8UiOwJcCnMzphzj96Z6RDC35r0_nrkJztzqylrnOGE9qlL-VMAGV3hiza51QAXj2012kaMnvQ2wllBzRlPczL8pBkSo57r9ya9rJlNR_bhIXW11Ylnc2tUz-jmb-v2gGQeDmt8ZRt-pfBtSTvHfb2lrRGdlrGoUXRtk8s7xchAxFUapOAhzf3_K7Iy5QX-xbcC1MGjovw49iKRQy4pDct1iMEE5_6JQO_k-02ZGA04chpvlGGAPCSjTG_n42F9IScqWg&#038;__tn__=-R<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The first SM Supermall AI robot concierge will be deployed early 2019, according to an ABS-CBN interview with SM Supermalls Chief Operating Officer Steven Tan. If it becomes successful, SM Mall of Asia, SM Seaside City Cebu, and SM Aura Premier will also get their own AI robot concierge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/2017\/03\/09\/weve-got-it-all-for-you-the-sm-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">We\u2019ve got it all for you: The SM Story<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Taiwan firm New Kinpo Group&#8217;s local manufacturer, Cal-Comp Technology (Philippines) Inc., manufactured the robots for SM. The SM Megamall robot holds a touchscreen pad for users to interact with but it can also reply using voice to basic questions. Other features include smart voice interactivity and facial detection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37119\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/sm-robot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Smart AI Robots\/IMAGE New Kinpo Group<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Smart AI robot concierges are currently being used in airports, banks, hotels, and malls in countries such as South Korea, Italy, China, and Japan. SM Supermalls will be the first in the Philippines to adopt the technology to its services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/2015\/12\/27\/success-story-henry-sy-sr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Success Story: Henry Sy Sr.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/business\/11\/22\/18\/robot-concierge-coming-to-sm-as-henry-sy-turns-to-ai\" target=\"_blank\">ABS-CBN News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmirror.com.ph\/taiwan-firm-to-introduce-ai-robots-to-sm-shopping-malls\/\" target=\"_blank\">Business Mirror<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/smsupermalls\" target=\"_blank\">SM Supermalls Facebook Page<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SM Supermalls, the biggest shopping mall chain in the Philippines, has recently previewed two robots equipped with Artificial Intelligence (AI) able to provide mall information, promos, and events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2857,72,7331],"class_list":["post-37115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-henry-sy","tag-sm-megamall","tag-sm-supermalls"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/sm-robot-e1543476963615.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37191,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37115\/revisions\/37191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}