Select Walmart stores have autonomous robots that track inventory “I was thinking at first that it’s like cleaning the floor,” one shopper said. By Andrea Miller. March 27, 2018, 4:28 PM.

Here's a list of tasks the Walmart robots will perform Clean floors. After testing out robot janitors in some stores in 2018, Walmart is expanding its use of autonomous robot mops.

Walmart is expanding the use of shelf-scanning inventory management robots to more than 50 U.S. stores after testing in Arkansas, Pennsylvania and California, according to a Walmart blog post.

Walmart and Target are taking different approaches to adding robots in stores, a split that will have an impact on the companies’ massive workforces and shape the future of automation in retail.

Walmart has experimented with the use of robots for carrying out a number of functions on sales floors and back rooms in recent years. One of those tests is about to end.

Robots are already a common sight in warehouses (Amazon alone use more than 45,000) but now they’re moving into stores too.Walmart has announced it’s deploying shelf-scanning bots in 50 ...

By next February, it expects to have autonomous floor scrubbers in 1,860 of its more than 4,700 US stores. Walmart will also have robots that scan shelf inventory at 350 stores.

Walmart and Target are taking different approaches to adding robots in stores, a split that will have an impact on the companies’ massive workforces and shape the future of automation in retail.

Walmart, the country's largest retailer and private employer, expects to add self-driving robots that scrub floors to 1,860 of its more-than 4,700 US stores by February.

Walmart and Target are taking different approaches to adding robots in stores, a split that will have an impact on the companies’ massive workforces and shape the future of automation in retail.

Walmart and Target are taking different approaches to adding robots in stores, a split that will have an impact on the companies’ massive workforces and shape the future of automation in retail.