Walmart unveils fleet of floor-mopping robots to replace human workers who keep complaining about wages

Natural News: Retail giant Walmart has found an interesting, and not terribly surprising, response to the ongoing pressure to increase minimum wages by hiring a fleet of robots to sweep its floors and cut humans out of the equation entirely.

The company has just announced that it has enlisted a fleet of 360 “custodial” robots to autonomously clean its stores’ floors. Billed as a cross between motorized wheelchairs ice rink machines, the computer-vision robots were developed by Brain Corp. After being taught the stores’ layouts and best routes by humans, the robots will be off to sweep and scrub the floors on their own with the press of a button while customers shop around them. The robots are expected to be up and running in hundreds of Walmart stores by the end of January....read more>>>...