{"id":115497,"date":"2020-11-06T04:23:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T12:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/walmart-is-giving-up-on-its-inventory-robots"},"modified":"2020-11-06T04:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T12:23:21","slug":"walmart-is-giving-up-on-its-inventory-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/walmart-is-giving-up-on-its-inventory-robots","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Is Giving Up on Its Inventory Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/walmart-is-giving-up-on-its-inventory-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks like inventory robots won\u2019t be replacing humans in Walmart for now. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a bit sad for the supplier of the robots. But I\u2019m glad that people will keep their jobs in Walmart.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Bitter Reality<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the news was devastating for Bossa Nova, the robotics firm that provided Walmart with its inventory robots. The firm, a Carnegie Mellon University-born startup, laid off half of its staff as it tries to drum up replacement business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see an improvement in stores with the robots,\u201d Walmart told Bossa Nova, someone familiar with the deal told the <em>WSJ<\/em>, \u201cbut we don\u2019t see enough of an improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like inventory robots won\u2019t be replacing humans in Walmart for now. \ud83d\ude03 I\u2019m a bit sad for the supplier of the robots. But I\u2019m glad that people will keep their jobs in Walmart. Bitter Reality Unfortunately, the news was devastating for Bossa Nova, the robotics firm that provided Walmart with its inventory robots. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}