Walmart has plans to potentially spend $200M on self-driving forklifts to automate more warehouse operations, Siddharth Cavale and Jeffrey Dastin of Reuters reports, citing three people familiar with the mattter. Walmart wants autonomous forklifts to move pallets of goods at its distribution centers and intends to buy possibly hundreds from Fox Robotics. The rollout, which Walmart could stop at any time, would occur in stages over several years, Reuters’ sources added.
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