Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.06
…misplaced packages, stolen merchandise, and returned goods. In 2013, Walmart lost up to $3B due to discrepancies between inventory records and actual stock, according to Forbes. Now drone-based package-tracking tech could finally help solve this problem. Read: Walmart Testing Warehouse Drones to Catalog and Manage Inventory New research from MIT proposes lightweight drones that can help track and manage inventory in large-scale environments by allowing passive, long-range radio frequency identification (RFID) scanning. RFID tags have long provided a potential solution to the problem of effective package tracking through digital cataloging. Think of it as a much more sophisticated version of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.56
…design, engineering and software.” Major KNAPP customers include companies such as McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, Avon, Hermes, United Healthcare/Optum, Walgreen/Boots and Walmart.