Walmart unveils a grocery-picking robot to take on Amazon and Kroger

Walmart on Wednesday unveiled a new automated system that picks and packs online grocery orders at high speeds.

The system, called the Alphabot, will help Walmart take on Amazon and Kroger in the battle for shoppers’ grocery spending. The Alphabot operates in a 20,000 square-foot facility attached to a Walmart store. […]

The Alphabot’s robots move vertically and horizontally, transferring thousands of blue bins around the shelving system as they pack orders. When customers arrive at the Walmart store to pick up their orders, workers can retrieve their items from one of several stations attached to the shelving system. These stations spit blue bins of products corresponding to a grocery order number. The bins contain the shoppers’ groceries, already bagged and ready to go. […]

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