Monday, 27 November 2017

Walmart is 'secretly' testing self-driving floor scrubbers, signaling that more robots are coming

"Walmart has been quietly testing out autonomous floor scrubbers during the overnight shifts in five store locations near the company's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas."


"The device called 'Emma,' which is the creation of San Diego-based startup Brain Corp., uses technology similar to self-driving cars including extensive cameras, sensors, algorithms and Lidar for navigational mapping. The only difference is that Emma scrubs the floor."


"Walmart added that traditionally, one of its maintenance workers is tasked with manually driving a ride-on scrubber, but now employees could be freed up to do other tasks."
 
 
Walmart is 'secretly' testing self-driving floor scrubbers, signaling that more robots are coming

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