Walmart Warehouse in Florida Transitions to Automation

Walmart Warehouse in Florida Transitions to Automation

Inside a warehouse in Brooksville, Florida, the roles of hundreds of workers are changing as automation takes hold. This warehouse, one of the largest private employers in the county since it opened in 1991, is set to become the first Walmart warehouse in the US to use automation for handling most products.

José Molina, a longtime employee of the warehouse, has witnessed the transition firsthand. After years of manually unloading semi trucks with a pallet jack, he is now an autonomous forklift operator, overseeing the robots as they unload the trucks. Although the work is less manual and requires more […]

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