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.

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.

Dozens of Walmart stores across the country are now testing automation to handle tasks that are repeatable and predictable. Robots have been deployed to scan shelves for out-of-stock items, and ...

Companies like Amazon and Walmart say their automation efforts will lead to new jobs, but critics worry about the humans who could be phased out.

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 ...

Walmart and Target are taking different approaches to adding robots in stores, a split that will have an impact on the companies’ massive workforces and shape the future of automation in retail.

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 ...

Walmart has experimented with the use of robots for carrying out a number of functions on sales floors and back rooms in recent years. One of those tests is about to end.

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.

Walmart is the latest, and the largest, retailer to adopt robots with an army of 1,500 robots at its stores, but not everyone is excited about the new development.