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amidst the aisles at this San Jose hardware store customers may find some very high-tech help I can help you find things in the store OSH bot is the newest member of the Orchard Supply hardware sales staff there's no way that every is so sore so so you could know the exact number and location of every single item that we sell the robot can do that inside this five foot tall Linux running robot are two computers I'm looking for screws speech recognition helps ashpod understand customer needs stored in Osh BOTS memory are a map of the store and its inventory so the robot can show you where a specific screw is on screen or guide you there I think I'm here so the robot can navigate by its own in store without any additional things that we need to put on the store like magnetic bands or things like that everything is built in the robot sensors microphone cameras laser rangefinders lighters all that's building to keep up with any changes aash pot brushes up on the stores layout after hours it navigates by its own at night when no one is here to create a map and that's mapreduces for the next thing in the morning it knows where the products are located in those way to go watashi ah can't do is offer how to advise the robot may not be able to help you fix a leaky roof but it could do something that a salesperson finds difficult break down language barriers translating 35,000 product names is tricky but a spanish-language database should roll out in the coming months a 3d camera could help with another common problem you come in with the one random hinge or nail and don't know what it's called but you know you need 20 of them the camera could scan the item and tell you if it's in stock a salespersons memory might get rusty but ash pots not likely in San Jose I'm Sumi das cnet.com for CBS News