Creating The Intelligent Enterprise In Retail (Part 1)

Do you recognize this photograph? It's a picture of a robot from Bossa Nova that has been "patrolling" the aisles of some Walmart stores in the United States. There have been attempts for several years to bring automation to retail stores – with mixed success. A popular back-office example is the "picking robots" used in Amazon and Ocado distribution centers. Even Costco's pizza-making bot provides an eye-catching example of automation.