Walmart Ends Contract With Robotics Company, Opts For Human Workers Instead, Report Says

November 3, 2020 Melissa Repko, CNBC

At some Walmart stores, robots have roamed the sales floors and helped check if shelves were stocked. But the big-box retailer has now decided to end its contract with the robotics company behind those machines after finding that people can do about the same work, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.

Schnuck Markets Deploys Tally Robot to More Than Half of Stores

October 2, 2020 Schnuck Markets

Three years after introducing Simbe Robotics’ autonomous robot Tally to select stores to enhance inventory management, Schnuck Markets, Inc. today announced it is launching the technology in an additional 46 stores, leveraging Tally’s real-time data to improve the shopping experiences in 62 locations.

Study: Restaurant Industry Adding Robots to Offset Rising Labor Costs

October 1, 2020 Ball State

Your favorite bartender or waitress could soon be replaced by a mechanical counterpart on a future visit to the local pub or restaurant, says a new study from Ball State University.

Woodman’s Markets Rolls Out Badger Technologies Grocery Robots

July 28, 2020 Badger Technologies

These robots will monitor product availability, verify prices and deliver precise location data for more than 100,000 items at each location.

Advanced Farm Technologies Raises $ 7.5M Series A for its Strawberry Picking Robot

Based in Davis, CA, AFT creates robots as a service for farmers. It has developed the T-6 robotic strawberry harvester which operates on farms in the Oxnard, Santa Maria, and Salinas-Watsonville areas of California.