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The Future of Retail is Smaller, Crowdsourced and Robot-Powered

Predicting where the next phase of consumer buying behavior is headed has proven notoriously tricky. Ecommerce had been growing at a consistent…

Uber Eats Adds Robot-Powered Delivery in Florida

Uber Eats has partnered with robotics company Cartken to offer automated food delivery in Florida using self-driving robots. The offering will launch…

Has Robotics Finally Arrived? Benefits Emerge in the Store, Microfulfillment Center and Last Mile

Robots are already an established part of large-scale warehouses run by behemoths like Amazon. They move swiftly and at scale, covering a…

The Future is Now: Why Retailers Should Let Robots Clean Their Floors

While foot traffic in many stores has slowed down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, things will be picking up. This is good…

Sam’s Club to Deploy Robots at All 600 Stores

Sam’s Club will roll out an additional 372 autonomous floor scrubbers this fall, a move that will put robots in every one…

How Woodman’s Markets is Harnessing In-Store ‘Anti-COVID Robots’

In-store robots aren’t just tools that can check for mislabeled products or clean messes in a timely manner. They also provide an…

How Robots Can Help Retail Operate Safely Again

Before COVID-19, the brick-and-mortar shopping differentiator for the consumer was the in-person experience: They could try on the goods, or just see…

Zebra Launches Autonomous Solution For Detecting Out-Of-Stocks And Pricing Errors

Zebra Technologies Corporation has introduced SmartSight, an intelligent automation solution designed to improve front-of-store operations at mass merchants, grocers, supermarkets and hypermarkets….

Walmart Investing $800+ Million To Open And Remodel Stores In Six States

Walmart will invest more than $800 million toward opening new stores in Florida and California, and remodeling 157 stores in those states along…

NRF2019: Ahold Will Deploy 500 Robots To Create More Spill-Proof Supermarkets

Ahold Delhaize has launched nearly 500 robots at its GIANT and Stop & Shop stores to patrol the aisles for spills and,…

NRF 2017: Personalization, Deep Analytics And Talking Robots

This year’s NRF Big Show did not disappoint. The show floor was busy and energetic from Sunday through the end of the…

SOTI To Unveil Mobility Management Solution At NRF

SOTI Inc. will demonstrate its Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution, MobiControl 13.3, at booth #1343 at the NRF Big Show 2017. Additionally,…

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