Continuing its deployments of in-store technology, Walmart is introducing a self-driving machine to clean and polish floors.
The Auto-C (autonomous cleaner) uses assisted autonomy to clean store floors, rather than an employee riding on and driving the scrub machine, according to a Walmart blog post and as portrayed in a Walmart video.
The self-driving machine is in 78 stores already and soon moving into another 360 locations.
Walmart has been adding high-tech devices into its stores over the past year.
The retailer recently announced it was sending to its stores 17,000 virtual reality headsets to be used for employee training, launched a pilot to use automation technology to deliver items to associates and introduced shelf-scanning robots that use artificial intelligence to track inventory in 50 stores.
how many jobs lost on this robot? Puts people out of work, so even THEY can't shop at Walmart
At the moment, Mark, the robot actually needs a human handler.