To its network of roughly 600 floor-scrubbing robots, Sam’s Club has now added inventory-scanning robots.While cleaning the floors, the new inventory scanning robots may gather information on product availability and prices. According to the Sam’s Club release, they are run by BrainOS, the AI operating system developed by Brain Corp. Robots are being used more often by supermarkets to manage their shelf-level inventories. By eliminating routine chores from colleagues’ workloads, pricing and out-of-stock tracking procedures will be more effective. Alert Innovation, an e-grocery automation company, was acquired by Walmart in October. It intends to “save, retrieve, and disburse orders” across three temperature zones using its Alphabot technology.
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