Cargo drones
© George Tsartsianidis

This is not about Wal-mart using drones to deliver to customer, which remains fraught with regulatory and operational difficulties, but in this New York Times article, t’s about deploying the technology in its largest warehouses in the US. “Walmart workers now manually scan pallets of goods with hand-held scanning devices. The drone’s methodical, vertical movements would essentially mimic the path of a person in a forklift who might be inspecting labels and inventory.”

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