{"id":73910,"date":"2017-11-21T17:44:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T01:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/walmart-is-secretly-testing-self-driving-floor-scrubbers-signaling-that-more-robots-are-coming"},"modified":"2017-11-21T17:44:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T01:44:17","slug":"walmart-is-secretly-testing-self-driving-floor-scrubbers-signaling-that-more-robots-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/walmart-is-secretly-testing-self-driving-floor-scrubbers-signaling-that-more-robots-are-coming","title":{"rendered":"Walmart is \u2018secretly\u2019 testing self-driving floor scrubbers, signaling that more robots are coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/walmart-is-secretly-testing-self-driving-floor-scrubbers-signaling-that-more-robots-are-coming.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Planning to try and automate the entire store.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Walmart (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/quote.html?stockTicker=WMT\">WMT<\/a>) has been quietly testing out autonomous floor scrubbers during the overnight shifts in five store locations near the company\u2019s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading Below<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Walmart told FOX Business that the move, which was first reported by LinkedIn, is a \u201cvery small proof of concept pilot that we are running\u201d and that the company still has a lot more to learn about how this technology \u201cmight work best in our different retail locations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/features\/2017\/11\/21\/walmart-is-secretly-testing-self-driving-floor-scrubbers-signaling-that-more-robots-are-coming.html\">http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/features\/2017\/11\/21\/walmart-is-se...oming.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planning to try and automate the entire store. Walmart (WMT) has been quietly testing out autonomous floor scrubbers during the overnight shifts in five store locations near the company\u2019s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. Continue Reading Below A spokesperson for Walmart told FOX Business that the move, which was first reported by LinkedIn, is a \u201cvery [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73910","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}