Automation & Robotics

Uncover expert perspectives and breaking news regarding automation & robotics. We highlight the key players and strategic breakthroughs moving the retail needle.

A collage of different steps of the Walmart supply chain process: a crane loading goods onto a truck, the facade of the Walmart office building in Silicon Valley, and a person looking at logistics on an iPad.
Stores

Four pieces of technology Walmart is using to keep stores in shape

Walmart is unifying store operations with technology and automation, ranging from digital price tags to robotic scanners and AI agents.

Vidhi Choudhary
A gif of the robotic waiter at Prince Tea House.
Stores

We got waited on by a robotic server to see how some restaurants are addressing the staffing shortage

It delivers food from the kitchen, returns with dirty plates for the dishwasher, and sings “Happy Birthday.” But it’s here to help servers, not replace them.

Andrew Adam Newman
Tally robot in a Hy-Vee grocery store
Stores

How robots could lend short-staffed grocers a helping hand

They’re taking over “dirty, dull, and dangerous” work—but they’ll take some getting used to.

Erin Cabrey

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