As Walmart turns to robots, it’s the human workers who feel like machines

Here are videos of some of the robots at work:

Bossa Nova makes the inventory scanning robots shown in the WP article. Here is a video of it working in a Wal-Mart during a 2018 pilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRJV1SPYpIE

TechCrunch had a brief sit-down with the Bossa Nova CTO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXEaCZ4KzL8

This article follows an earlier one from WP talking more specifically about the floor-cleaning bots mentioned here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/04/walmart...

Video about the floor scrubbers here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=rcMCFe6XVC0

For those who don't have a subscription to the Washington Post, you can access the article here: https://business.financialpost.com/technology/walmart-has-un...

This is so impressively close to the early stages of automation in the novella Manna by Marshall Brain [1] that it almost seems like Wal-Mart executives used it as a playbook...

[1] https://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Maybe Walmart can stop its health insurance scheme with this and those people can do work elsewhere. There are plenty of customer service jobs.