Walmart attributes part of its second-quarter results to investments in robot floor cleaners:
“Smart assistants have huge potential to make busy stores run more smoothly, so Walmart has been pioneering new technologies to minimize the time an associate spends on the more mundane and repetitive tasks like cleaning floors or checking inventory on a shelf,” said Elizabeth Walker, from Walmart corporate affairs.
Viewed most positively, this is perhaps another example of Multiplicity, with the division of labor between humans and machines based on what they do best.