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SEEKONK, Mass.—A wheeled robot named Marty is rolling into nearly 500 grocery stores to alert employees if it encounters spilled granola, squashed tomatoes, or a broken jar of mayonnaise.
But there could be a human watching from behind its cartoonish googly eyes.
