Walmart is abandoning its plan to have robots scan shelves. Yahoo Finance's Brian Sozzi weighs in. BRIAN SOZZI: Julie, one story that definitely took, caught my attention this morning is Walmart. Not, ...

The retail giant has ended its contract with robotics company Bossa Nova Robotics, with which it joined over the past five years to gradually add two-metre-tall inventory-scanning machines to stores.

One of the most promising implementations of retail automation has come to a screeching halt. Last week, news broke that mega-retailer Walmart was ending a lucrative contract with robotics firm Bossa ...

Walmart is no longer working with the robot shelf scanners it deployed last year at some metro Orlando stores, which one expert said shows that not all new labor-saving technology will work out. Last ...

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(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 ...

(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 has dropped its plans to use roving robots to scan shelves and keep track of inventory, squashing the world’s largest retailer’s years long efforts to automate the task. The company said it ...