And robots — which don’t call in sick, take bathroom breaks, take vacations or need healthcare — are a huge boon to employers. So is the tax code, which currently treats machines as capital equipment ...

(TNS) — In September 2021, Cabarrus County deputies descended on a wooded neighborhood in Harrisburg on Valhalla Drive. Their target was a one-story, suburban Charlotte house partly hidden from the ...

Retailers are quietly reshaping how stores operate. As labour costs rise and staffing gaps widen, machines are stepping in to handle the routine jobs that keep shelves stocked, floors clean, and ...

The S20T robot then transfers the goods to the designated chute for the depot, while the parcel heads downstairs for packing. The Geek+ solution is designed to be flexible enough so that Next can ...

Amazon’s (AMZN) retail business has reshaped the economy, workforce, and world as we know it — but now, robots are reshaping Amazon. Yahoo Finance’s series Next takes a look at these robots in action, ...

VenHub, developer of fully autonomous and robotic plug-and-play Smart Stores that can be delivered, unpacked and merchandised virtually anywhere in the world within a few days, believes that its ...

The study of 107 retail executives also found the adoption of mobile point-of-sale systems and curbside pickup sensors could increase by 2025. While mobile point-of-sale systems and curbside pickup ...

Robots at retail are getting better. At the annual National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show in New York this week, I saw plenty of robots that can roam up and down the aisles scanning products as ...

BJ’s Wholesale Club plans to deploy autonomous aisle-scanning vehicles from Simbe Robotics to all of the club retailer’s locations, the companies announced in a press release Tuesday. The robots, ...

Rohit Bhargava is on a mission to inspire more non-obvious thinking in the world. He is a 3-time WSJ bestselling author and a ...

A look inside a busy VenHub. At the recent opening of Los Angeles’s newest rail station, just a few miles from LAX, politicians and members of the media gawked at the new train platforms, escalators, ...

Yahoo Finance's Dani Romero details the increasing use of robots and automation by restaurants and retailers amid the pandemic and resulting labor shortage. -Well, the robot workforce is on the rise.