(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 ...

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 ...

Since Amazon bought warehouse robotics company Kiva Systems in 2012, its efforts in automation have been well known. The retail and tech powerhouse has introduced its cashierless Amazon Go stores, ...

Walmart plans to build automated mini-warehouses in dozens of its stores to speed up customers’ online delivery and curbside pickup orders in a race against Amazon. Walmart announced Wednesday that it ...

Walmart today showed off the newest weapon in its retail battle against Amazon: A cadre of robots that retrieve items for online grocery orders. Walmart has been developing the robots for the last few ...

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Walmart WMT has experimented with the use of robots for carrying out a number of functions on sales floors and back rooms in recent years with the goals of improving operational efficiency, reducing ...