Retail giant Walmart has scrapped plans to use robots to keep track of its inventory. The world's largest supermarket chain said it had ended its partnership with Bossa Nova Robotics, who made the ...

We’ve seen the Jetsons, Star Wars, and Silent Running. In the future, all the menial jobs will be done by robots. But Walmart is reversing plans to have six-foot-tall robots scan store shelves ...

Late last year, Walmart said it was removing some inventory-scanning robots after it decided that having staff check inventory was actually simpler.