Walmart today showed off the newest weapon in its retail battle against Amazon: A cadre of robots that retrieve items for online grocery orders. Walmart has been developing the robots for the last few ...

(CNN) -- Walmart wants store workers to help out customers instead of mopping up floors and unloading boxes in backrooms. So it's increasingly turning to robots to fill those tasks. The world's ...

Since Amazon bought warehouse robotics company Kiva Systems in 2012, its efforts in automation have been well known. The retail and tech powerhouse has introduced its cashierless Amazon Go stores, ...

Walmart plans to build automated mini-warehouses in dozens of its stores to speed up customers’ online delivery and curbside pickup orders in a race against Amazon. Walmart announced Wednesday that it ...

Walmart is enlisting the help of robots to keep up with a surge in online orders. The company said Wednesday that it plans to build warehouses at some stores where self-driving robots will fetch ...

Dozens of Walmart stores across the country are now testing automation to handle tasks that are repeatable and predictable. Robots have been deployed to scan shelves for out-of-stock items, and check ...

Walmart is expanding its use of robotics and artificial intelligence for "repeatable and predictable" tasks including scanning shelves for out of stock items, according to a company statement sent to ...

MILPITAS, Calif. (KTVU) - Walmart invited reporters into one of its Bay Area stores to show of a new labor saving employee: an artificially intelligent robot. It's usually hard for broadcasters to get ...

Amazon has long been known to use robots in its warehouses and now, Walmart says that they will be doing the same thing. Like always, Amazon is forcing other companies to adapt towards automation and ...

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Walmart WMT has experimented with the use of robots for carrying out a number of functions on sales floors and back rooms in recent years with the goals of improving operational efficiency, reducing ...