How AI could help make your furniture delivery headaches go away

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Sundays Furniture Showroom

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Target eliminated a daily headache for drive-up workers with a new tech fix

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A Target Corp. employee loads products into a vehicle at the drive-up pickup location outside the company's flagship store in Edina, Minnesota, US, on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024.
Some Target stores fulfill hundreds of drive-up orders per day, and small delays can add up fast.

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Retailers are calling on AI to stop customer return fraud

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Warehouse workers checking boxes.

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GNC's AI-powered drones help reduce backorders while boosting warehouse worker satisfaction

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Warehouse drone checking inventory.
AI can enable drones to fly longer since they require less onboard computing, said Brendan Englot, the director of the Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

Corvus Robotics

Humanoid robot startup Agility Robotics is going public at a $2.5 billion valuation via a SPAC

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Humanoid Digit
Agility Robotics' humanoid Digit.

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Walmart truckers are getting a shorter drive home thanks to one manager's AI project

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Walmart's Leo Garcia and a Walmart truck
Walmart's Leo Garcia is using AI to help his drivers get home quicker.

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A logistics company designed an AI tool inspired by its supply-chain veteran COO. Meet Uncle Phil.

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Lazer Logistics Trucks
Lazer Logistics works with retailers and manufacturers to move their goods from docks to highways and warehouses.

Lazer Logistics

Your returns could be headed to a landfill. An AI-native software aims to reroute them to nonprofits.

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Luxome Fabric Wall
At Luxome, returns of bedding and other textiles go to nonprofits in need through the AI-native software LiquiDonate.

Luxome

Figure AI had one of its robots race an intern to sort packages. See who lost.

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Figure AI intern vs. humanoid
A Figure AI intern competes against a humanoid.

Figure AI

What it's like to run the family business when your dad is its billionaire founder

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Jennifer Harvey is the CEO of Crown Worldwide.
Jennifer Harvey is the CEO of Crown Worldwide and the daughter of its billionaire founder, Jim Thompson.

Crown Worldwide

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