Walmart, gearing up to executive its strategy of operating micro-fulfillment centers (MFCs) in its retail stores, has agreed to acquire the microbot startup Alert Innovation.
The retail giant has been working since 2016 with the automation startup on its robotic grocery order-fulfillment technology, launching a pilot project for the autonomous system known as Alphabot, at a Walmart store in Salem, New Hampshire.
Alert's Alphabots move autonomously in multiple directions, can operate in cold-storage areas and don't require lifts or conveyors to move through fulfillment areas.
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