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 Bossa Nova Robotics, which we previously reported had developed an automated planogram compliance system in partnership with software developer Digimarc. [Read more…] about Wal-Mart using robots to wander around the shelves and scan products