Walmart Robots – Automation and Walmart – Expect to See More and More

By | April 5, 2023
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Walmart Automation

The retail giant expects that within three years, 55% of its fulfillment center volume will move through automated facilities, and 65% of its stores will be automated to some extent.  Writeup from Wednesday Walmart call with investors.  —

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Two robots handled an inbound shipment of some 3,400 packages; sensors and robots separated them before they moved to an automated grid. Meanwhile robots were able to build pallets of 130 cases, versus 75 for manually built ones, per Telsey’s note, which also described robots in storage and picking, and autonomous forklifts that loaded and unloaded.

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