Walmart Launches Small Army Of Autonomous Scanning Robots. Well, there go some more of those $15 per hour jobs down the drain. It looks like they scan about 100 times as fast, too. March 22, 2018 5:31 pm by IWB By the end of January Wal-Mart will have shelf scanning robots in more than 50 U.S. stores (2:54). WCCO 4 Mid-Morning – Oct. 27, 2017 We are primarily funded by readers. Please subscribe and donate to support us! Views: