Walmart will be using 1,000 shelf-scanning robots by the end of this summer. The 6-foot-tall devices, with 15 cameras each, roam stores' aisles.
, equipped with 15 cameras each, roam aisles and send alerts to store employees’ handheld devices when items are out of stock. That helps solve a vexing problem that costs retailers nearly a trillion dollars a year, according to researcher IHL Group.
“It speeds up the entire cycle,” Walmart executive John Crecelius, who oversees store innovations, said in an interview. NCR Corp., which has supplied Walmart with cash registers and self-checkout kiosks for years, will handle the installation and upkeep of the Bossa Nova machines. Bossa Nova, meanwhile, has done some tests with Albertsons Cos., whose grocery chains include Vons and Pavilions.Walmart’s Crecelius declined to give details about how much the robots have reduced out-of-stock products, saying only that the metric has improved, with the devices traveling a total of 50,000 miles, scanning a million aisles and 500 million products. Simbe Robotics Inc.
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