(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 ...

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Walmart and Target are taking different approaches to adding robots in stores, a split that will have an impact on the companies’ massive workforces and shape the future of automation in retail. Both ...

Walmart is adding robots to its workforce, as it continues to shift into a storefront for the modern world. The retailer has been testing the robots in a number of stores in Arkansas, Pennsylvania and ...

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 ...

After a years-long push to automate its stores with helpful worker robots, Walmart Inc. is pulling the plug. It turns out that commissioning a robotics firm to develop mechanical workers just to 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 ...

Back in 2017, Walmart launched a pilot project that made some of its old-school brick-and-mortar retail stores seem like futuristic testbeds. The chain began trialing robots that could scan shelves to ...