For over 50 years, industrial robots have been used to automate physical, repetitive tasks, relying heavily on their consistency and brute strength to generate value.

Amazon has eclipsed Walmart to become the world’s largest retail seller outside China. Propelled in part by surging demand during the pandemic, people spent more than $610 billion on Amazon over the 12 months ending in June.

As the demand for quicker and more convenient grocery shopping soars, supermarket giant Woolworths is opening the state's first e-store.

Moving retail sales from a physical store to a digital outlet is equivalent to taking purchases from where they are most profitable to where margins are lowest

After years of trying, 60 Minutes cameras finally get a peek inside the workshop at Boston Dynamics, where robots move in ways once only thought possible in movies.

New data from Edge Retail Insight, the market research arm of Edge by Ascential, shows that the share of in-store sales will decline to 62.4% by 2025, down from about 70% in 2021.

Automation is all the buzz in 2020. Covid-19 has shown businesses where they need to supplement their human capital with technology assistance to maintain operations.

The pandemic pushed millions of consumers online to do their everyday shopping, with Millennials leading the pack.

The forklifts operate under what is called shared autonomy. This means the forklift, which can lift pallets and move them around, will operate on its own 90% of the time. However, every robot can also be controlled remotely if the need arises.

Lately, some robotics firms are making claims of best practices to successfully deploy automated guided vehicles and automated mobile robots (AGV/AMRs) as “mission-critical operations.”

After a few months of quasi-normalcy, the American consumer is back in a panic over COVID-19.

As grocery delivery startups increasingly emphasize their speed, a few companies are taking the opposite approach.

Even after the company almost doubled its warehouse and transportation network in the prior 18 months, it sees significant investment ahead, not to mention costs from hiring and training staff.

Just like the drive-through outlets run by Starbucks and other food chains, customers can order what they want online and drop by to pick up the goods, according to LG CNS.

Although monthly e-commerce sales continue to fall both sequentially and year-over-year, top trends are starting to firm up among the millions of consumers still shopping for groceries online, including the channel’s most active users.

Instacart Announces Next-Gen Fulfillment Initiative For Retail Partners.

The pilot adds another third-party provider to Costco’s same-day delivery lineup as Uber continues to integrate major grocers onto its platform.

The appetite for online shopping spiked dramatically during the Covid-19 pandemic. That growth spurt, coupled with consumer demand for rapid delivery, meant retailers had to reconfigure their fulfillment operations in a hurry.

Two times as many shoppers indicate they will shop more online (40%) versus less (20%) in 2021, according to a new report from The Feedback Group. Amazon’s Whole Foods and Fresh banners, Walmart, Target and Costco are top destinations for increased online spending.