Walmart Canada, which has been piloting a robot that moves products from trailers into the warehouse at a Calgary facility, plans to expand the technology to its warehouses in Mississauga and Cornwall, Ont., over the next five years. The department store will also add autonomous forklifts from Fox Robotics to four of its warehouses after a 16-month pilot at a Florida facility, the company said. (The Canadian Press, The Logic)

Talking point: The company has said it expects to roll the tech out across its entire Canadian distribution footprint—which totals 14 facilities in four provinces—after the Calgary pilot. In Calgary, Walmart found the robots are 90 per cent faster at the job than humans. Its Canadian warehouses employ about 7,000 people and the company, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment, said it will continue to require human workers alongside the robot additions. Retailers are one of several industries looking to automate more of their supply chain. Magna recently announced a pilot to test Sanctuary AI’s humanoid robots in its operations.