Col on Nostr: Walmart spent billions in the US automating its warehouses. But the robots can’t ...
Walmart spent billions in the US automating its warehouses. But the robots can’t handle the dog food. The Wall Street Journal reports Walmart’s small wheeled robots, now in over a dozen warehouses, struggle with big, heavy items like dog food bags and break down often. Worse, the engineers who babysit them can cost more than the warehouse workers they replaced!
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