After retailers suffered a bad year with bankruptcies, store closures and lower store footfall, we discuss why now is the time for retailers to invest in data and advanced technologies to boost consumer relations. Bricks and mortar retailers would sooner forget 2018. The year that brought 16 U.S. bankruptcies, falling share prices for leading European brands, and the UK's worst festive sales in 10 years isn't an industry high point. But it does offer a crucial lesson for those struggling in a tough climate: the need to harness digital. While footfall in stores continues to decline, online retail continues to thrive globally, with annual sales exceeding $2.4 trillion.

The past few years have seen significant advancements in computing power. With this, machines seem to have a greater ability to learn about us and participate in our lives. Whether through product purchase suggestions on Amazon.com and other retail outlets or in our business and professional pursuits, machines are busy learning everywhere around us. Recently, the market has become flooded with buzz words relating to this type of work. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning are often used inaccurately and interchangeably.

The fun of CES and Mobile World Congress are over; like most people who are slogging through the winter doldrums, we here at the Gadget Lab are eagerly awaiting the time when we can finally get our hands on all the cool new tech that we've previewed. In the meantime, we've scoured the web to find our favorite bargains. Whether you're planning for a party with the Fujifilm Instax Mini or doing a little spring cleaning with a couple of robot vacuums, we have a pick for you. I (Adrienne) own a Fujifilm Instax Mini 9, because it's affordable, adorable, and admirably serves the proper purpose of the instant film camera: to sit on a table at parties and print out fun pictures for everyone to take home. This week, it's marked down from its already low price to $50.

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Israel is a country full of history, which is why they have more museums per capita than any other country. They also have the oldest continuously used cemetery in the world and the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. Hearing that, you'd think that not a whole lot has changed over the years, but one thing that has constantly been evolving is their ability to innovate and be productive. Next to the U.S. and Canada, Israel has the largest number of publicly traded companies, which shows that they can also build successful businesses. Our recent article on "The Top-10 Biggest Startups in Israel by Funding" proved to be quite popular so we decided to do another article on the top 10 Israeli artificial intelligence (AI) startups.

Two out of three retail workers believe that technology will eventually replace some of their job responsibilities, underscoring the rising concern about the impact of automation and cutting-edge technology on the workplace. That's according to a new survey Thursday by The Fair Workweek Initiative, a project spawned from the non-profit labor-monitoring groups The Center for Popular Democracy and Organization United for Respect. The report is intended to reveal how U.S. retail employees perceive the growing use of technology in their daily work-lives. In short, they see it as both a concern and potential opportunity. Organizations like the World Economic Forum have forecast that innovations like machine learning will significantly alter the labor market, potentially leading to major job losses while creating new kinds of work. The retail sector is particularly prone to major disruption, led by online giant Amazon as it increases spending on new technology in an effort to cut costs.

The Rise of Robotics in The US Grocery Stores Is Unstoppable What if you'll come face to face with a robot while shopping at a grocery store? A robot that is able to assist grocery employees. And aside from that, it is also able to you in finding the grocery items you wanna buy and it's there at your service. Would you trust a robot?

FedEx is rolling into autonomous delivery, and soon. The company will do a trial run of the SameDay Bot, a robot for same-day and last-minute deliveries, in selected cities this summer, it said Wednesday. SameDay Bot can travel on sidewalks and roadsides to bring you smaller items, and it's based on the technology used in the iBot mobility device. It also uses multiple cameras and lidar sensing to avoid obstacles and negotiate various surfaces. "The FedEx SameDay Bot is an innovation designed to change the face of local delivery and help retailers efficiently address their customers' rising expectations," said Brie Carere, FedEx's executive vice president and marketing and communications boss, in the release.

Artificial intelligence is taking automation to a new level at an increasing number of companies. Here are five things to know about this technology, often called AI. Related: Ready to work with a smart robot? It can process massive amounts of data, come to conclusions about it and make decisions. Related: Here's how local companies use artificial intelligence right now They include the University of Dayton, Evanhoe & Associates, Mile Two, Galois Inc., Tangram Flex Inc., LexisNexis Legal and Professional, Yaskawa America Inc.'s Motoman Robotics Division, Huntington Bancshares, Kroger Co., Premier Health and Kettering Health Network.

We are increasingly addicted to Amazon Prime and its global equivalents, with its same-day or two-day free delivery service. To feed our addiction, Amazon has been building distribution centers closer and closer to our homes and deploying hundreds of thousands of Kiva robots to carry 25-pound yellow bins from one location to another.Alongside those robots, Amazon has been hiring hundreds of thousands of human workers to position the Kiva robots and troubleshoot issues when the robots get stuck. Nissa Scott, shown in the picture above, says about her job in a New York Times article, "For me, it's the most mentally challenging thing we have here. When machines take over simple repetitive tasks, humans are freed to do what they do best; thinking outside of the box and solving complex problems in creative ways.Here's another example.