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Walmart is working on it. Some of the stores have bots going up and down the isles doing inventory. Next will be stocking shelves. I know a manager at one of
by LinuxBender 8y ago
Walmart is working on it. Some of the stores have bots going up and down the isles doing inventory. Next will be stocking shelves. I know a manager at one of those Walmarts. They are one of the test stores for this tech.
Amazon use some bots and are working on automating more of the warehouse jobs, IIRC.
Unrelated: I like your username! :-)
- dunpeal 8y agoPretty much what I expected. When I've spoken to engineers involved in Amazon operations, they rather proudly mentioned how aggressively they are automating everything. Their goal seem to be 100% automation, and the only remaining jobs are those that can't be automated just yet. I don't know anything about Walmart, but given Amazon's path, they have no choice but to follow suite to stay competitive. Unrelated: thanks!