Day: October 27, 2017
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Wal-Mart using robots to wander around the shelves and scan products
Wal-Mart has hired a number of robots to wander around the aisles of its stores and check if products are in stock and displayed correctly. The company is said to be rolling out the robot shopkeeping assistant at 50 locations around the US, according to a report on ArkansasOnline.com. The robots themselves are from a company called…
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UPS using automation to move more parcels with same number of people, says boss
The chief executive of logistics giant UPS says the company is using automation technologies to move a greater number of parcels with the same number of people. In comments to Yahoo Finance, UPS CEO David Abney says: “Last year we hired about the same number of people and we’re doing it this year with an extra 5…