Cta 6: using drones to take inventory at walmart. links to short news item and videos offer details of walmart’s plans to use drones in its warehouses to count inventory. as seen in the first video, a drone can be moved up and down an aisle packed nearly to the ceiling with boxes, taking dozens of images per second to track inventory. these drones accomplish in as little as a day what took walmart employees about a month. the last two videos offers a glimpse about amazon’s initiatives in warehouse automation from robots to flying warehouse for drone delivery, which effectively puts walmart and other competitors on notice.1.why are the drones a potentially important invcntory management tool in warehouses?
2.what is amazon doing to automate its warehouses?
3.do these initiatives meaningfully improve delivery time and service experience of amazon's
customers or will these be just pipe dreams?
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