Walmart has shared plans to equip store employees with a new suite of AI tools to elevate their roles and experience.

Walmart Inc. is betting on greater supply-chain automation and hinting that a recent investment binge might lift profit beyond the retailer's stated long-term goals.

Walmart Inc. is betting on greater supply-chain automation and hinting that a recent investment binge might lift profit beyond the retailer’s stated long-term goals.

Within three years, the unit cost of moving goods will fall 20% as warehouse robots play a larger role in speeding goods to customers, Walmart said in a statement Tuesday.

Ikea is also implementing autonomy robots, having already added 100 drones to the roster to not only track inventory but to “improve the wellbeing” of team members. In Europe, drones work ...

The push behind the massive influx of warehouse robotics funding is largely driven by one entity: Amazon. There are other factors driving the industry, of course, including the pandemic, labor ...

walmart tests drone delivery Last Year, Walmart stopped using inventory-tracking robots in 500 stores. The 6-foot-tall roving robots were equipped with cameras for identifying out-of-stock and ...

Walmart ended its contract with Bossa Nova Robotics, which provided the retailer with robots that scanned shelves for inventory. Although Walmart believes that humans can accomplish the same task ...

Bossa Nova had announced in January 2020 that its inventory robots would be deployed to an additional 650 Walmart stores. The Wall Street Journal was first to report the ending partnership, saying ...