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Walmart said it would add the self-driving floor scrubbers to 1,500 more stores, on top of about 300 that already had them.
A dated step forward on the record
What the source says
“The scrubbers, which are currently deployed some 300 stores, are being added to 1,500 additional locations.”
What it means
BrainOS, from Brain Corp, is at stage 5 of 5 on our ladder: regulator-cleared or mass market. Its stage is set by other milestones on its record; this one adds to the history.
Human help: The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
More on BrainOS
- Brain Corp said more than 50,000 robots running its software were in use worldwide, and that deployments grew 68% in the first half of 2026 compared with a year earlier.
- Sam's Club began adding shelf-scanning cameras, using Brain Corp software, to the Tennant-built robot scrubbers already working in all of its nearly 600 US stores.
- Walmart said it would have 360 floor scrubbers running Brain Corp's software cleaning its US stores by the end of January 2019, after testing them for more than a year.