Analogue supermarkets are still fashionable in a digital economy

Even if you are not a sci-fi film buff who donned a Star Wars mask for Halloween, the chances are that robots have in some way enhanced your life in recent years. Maybe through your car, via the games console your kids play, or, as is more likely, through e-commerce, which increasingly relies on high-tech logistics and robot pickers to speed up a process we all take for granted.