A farm shop in Kent is to become the unlikely starting point for the next generation of shopping technology – artificially intelligent chat robots.

Court Farm Butchery and Country Larder will give customers the chance to ask advice from characters on its website when it launches the service at the beginning of next year.

The ‘chatbots’, named Billy the Butcher and Samantha, have been developed over the last seven years by velmai, an online start-up based in Devon, with an office in Kent and 12 servers in Somerset.

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