This Omni Talk Retail Fast Five segment, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, Quorso, and Veloq, breaks down Simbe’s launch of Tally 4.0, the most advanced generation of its autonomous shelf-scanning robot.

Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss why expanded coverage across produce, freezers, and top stock is a game-changer, how real-time shelf data becomes the foundation for the connected store, and why in-store robotics may offer one of the clearest ROIs in retail heading into 2026.

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Simbi has unveiled tally 4.0, the most advanced generation of its autonomous shelf scanning robot, featuring major upgrades in AI, runtime and vision capabilities.

Simbi, as we mentioned, also one of the sponsors of our coverage for FMI today.

So we'll be hearing more, I'm sure on this from the Simbi team later.

All right, so according to the Packer, this is an actual news outlet covering grocery.

That's the Packer, like the football team, but one member of the football team.

Yeah, right.

Yes.

All right.

Tally 4.0 introduces up to 12 hours of runtime, ultra high resolution cameras, expanded 3D and 360 degree coverage, and Nvidia's full stack AI infrastructure platform.

The robot can now scan hard to reach areas like top stock, upper steel, produce aisles, coolers, freezers, hooks and now bunkers, providing retailers with real time data on what's in stock pricing and product placement.

Simbee says Tally 4.0 delivers the foundational data layer for physical stores, connecting shelf conditions to decisions around availability, pricing, planogram compliance, forecasting and omnichannel fulfillment.

With Brad Begolia and his co founders in China with their first prototype.

Which is one of the best photos you've ever seen, go to the Simbi website.

I think they have it posted there, but they've come a long way.

Chris, are you buying or selling Tally's 4.0 upgrades?

Yeah, I'm not.

This is not going to surprise anyone, but I'm 100% buying this and I'm not buying it.

And just because as you alluded to correctly at the outset, because we're here at this FMI conference, about to do a ton of interviews with retailers via Simbi sponsorship of us.

But I, as I've said before a thousand times on this show, I'm all in on robots.

It's the, it's the quickest, fastest way to the idea of a connected store.

And here's the cool thing about this announcement.

The addition of produce and freezers into the arsenal, along with the other capabilities you mentions you mentioned, excuse me, means the tech is almost, almost at the level, if not already there at full store coverage, which is, is just enormous.

As you think about this from a retail operator, meaning store employees, here's what I'm going to say to everyone listening.

Store employees never have to scan outs incorrectly ever again because a robot can do it.

The same way every day.

And so, yep, Tal 4.0.

Yep.

All in.

It's not a surprise that, that I am in agreement.

I think you have the full stack now of offering when it comes to In Store Robot, an in store robot like Tally 4.0.

That eliminates some of the concerns that I think retailers may have had before where it's not doing the full store coverage.

I think now that you have especially areas like produce that have the lowest margins, the highest spoilage of any other products in the store, now that those are included in this, I think it makes the return on investment pretty undeniable from the perspective of a grocery retailer.

So I think that in conjunction with longer battery life, higher resolution and 3D image capturing across, you know, up in the stacks like we heard, gives it more applicability across the types of retailers too that it can be in.

So to me, this is just onward and upward for Simbi and for In Store Robotics.