Walmart shows off new drone technology to replace workers

Walmart is coming close to adding drones to its daily workforce to help the retailer monitor inventory in its warehouses. Once testing is complete in six to nine months, drones could shorten work processes currently taking a month to just one day... The remotely controlled drone snaps pictures at a rate of 30 per second in order to catalogue products on shelves and immediately alert the user to when goods are running out or incorrectly stocked...

The drone is particularly useful for checking stocks. The device will be able to scan as many products in a day as a worker is able to manually scan using hand-held devices in a month, significantly reducing the labor intensive process..

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