VANCOUVER — Earlier this year, staff at two stores—a Mark’s and Sport Chek in B.C.’s Lower Mainland—met a co-worker who looked different than any they had worked with before. Their new colleague had snow-white skin made of plastic and metal, with sensors on its hands and a camera attached to its face.
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