CategoryWarehouse & Logistics Robotics
Overview
US multinational retail corporation. World's largest retailer by revenue. Public company (NYSE: WMT).
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
Scale
Stage
Automated supply-chain network
AI and inventory operations
Data & sources
Web sources
3
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Walmart has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Symbotic3× joint9 total
- 2Wing2× joint4 total
- 3Brain Corp1× joint5 total
- 4Flytrex1× joint2 total
- 5Plenty1× joint2 total
Most recent
- with Wingoperating
- with Wingoperating
- with Symboticoperating
- Plenty x Walmart2022-01-25with Plentyoperating
- Symbotic - Walmart warehouse automation2021-07-14with Symboticoperating
Walmart on the deployment map
View the global map1 verified deployment across 1 region, newest verified Aug 2020. Explore where Walmart's robots are operating, by place and type.
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Doug McMillon CEO
Media (1)
Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.
Safety record
No incidents on record for Walmart.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Walmart on the data-center map
Every verified data center Walmart operates that has a mapped coordinate (2 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.
Walmart data centers (2)
- Walmart Bentonville Data CenterBentonville · operating
- Walmart Jane Data CenterJane · operating
AI data centers Walmart operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Recent coverage
Walmart in third-party press
Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- Locus Robotics5 models
- Robotphoenix5 models
- Reeman4 models
- Savoye4 models
Mentioned on (66+)
Registry pages whose text names Walmart.
Companies (13)
Berkshire Grey, Nuro, Symbotic, Wing, Flux Auto, Dematic, Gatik, DroneUp, Fox Robotics, WORX Landroid, Brain Corp, Sam's Club, Flytrex
Robots and products (8)
Symbot, Mini Yellow, BrainOS, Blendid Smoothie Kiosk, Zipline Platform 2 (P2), Geek+ AMR, Berkshire Grey System, Symbotic System
Deployments (36)
Gatik Autonomous Box Truck at Arkansas, Nuro R2 at Houston, Texas, USA, Blendid Smoothie Kiosk at United States, Tennant T7AMR at United States, DroneUp Autonomous Ecosystem at Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, USA, Wing Delivery Aircraft at Houston, Zipline Platform 2 (P2) at Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, USA, Symbotic System at United States, Wing Delivery Aircraft at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, JBT Automated Guided Vehicles at Chalfont, Pennsylvania, USA, Wing Delivery Aircraft at United States, JBT Automated Guided Vehicles at Chalfont, Pennsylvania, USA (HQ) / Multiple North American sites, Nuro R2 at Houston, Argo AI Self-Driving System at Miami, Wing Delivery Aircraft at New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Argo AI Self-Driving System at Washington, D.C., Argo AI Self-Driving System at Austin, Wing Delivery Aircraft at San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA, Gatik Autonomous Box Truck at Texas, Zipline Platform 2 (P2) at Texas, Wing Delivery Aircraft at Australia, DroneUp Autonomous Ecosystem at Bentonville, Arkansas, USA, Geek+ S Series at Shenzhen, China, DroneUp Autonomous Ecosystem at Phoenix, Arizona, USA, and 12 more
People (9)
Eugene Izhikevich, Doug McMillon, Tom Walker, Arno Kütt, Rollin Ford, James Reed, Drayton McLane Jr., Latriece Watkins, Sam Walton
About 25 more pages name Walmart and were not checked here.
Partnerships
8 total · 7 operating · 1 just announced
Every company Walmart has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with Wingoperating
- with Wingoperating
- with Symboticoperating
- Plenty x Walmart2022-01-25with Plentyoperating
- Symbotic - Walmart warehouse automation2021-07-14with Symboticoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Symbotic3× joint9 total
- 2Wing2× joint4 total
- 3Brain Corp1× joint5 total
- 4Flytrex1× joint2 total
- 5Plenty1× joint2 total
All 8 partnerships
open in the atlas →- deployment2026-07-08operating
- deployment2026-01-11operating
- deployment2022-05-01operating
- distribution2022-01-25operating
- deployment2021-07-14operating
- technology2020-09-09just announced
Timeline
Every recorded move in Walmart’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipZipline x Walmart Houston drone delivery expansion
2026-07-08Wing and Walmart expanded drone delivery across Greater Houston adding eight more Walmart stores to the network bringing backyard deliveries to more than 1 million residents. Walmart nearing 2 million total drone deliveries.
PartnershipWing x Walmart 7 new drone delivery markets
2026-01-11Wing and Walmart announced expansion of residential drone delivery service to seven new markets Orlando Tampa Charlotte St Louis Cincinnati Los Angeles and Miami. Phased launch throughout 2026. Walmart nearing 2 million drone deliveries total.
PartnershipSymbotic x Walmart (Autonomous Warehouse Deployment)
2022-05-01Symbotic partnered with Walmart to implement AI-powered robotic warehouse automation across Walmart's distribution centers. Symbotic's end-to-end autonomous warehouse platform uses autonomous mobile robots for case handling, palletizing, and depalletizing. Walmart expanded the partnership to deploy Symbotic systems across its U.S. supply chain.
PartnershipPlenty x Walmart
2022-01-25Walmart invested in Plenty's 00M Series E round and became an equity partner and distribution channel for Plenty's vertically farmed produce. Plenty's leafy greens are sold at Walmart stores in California, with plans to expand to other products.
PartnershipSymbotic - Walmart warehouse automation
2021-07-14Symbotic and Walmart partnered (announced July 14, 2021; later expanded to all 42 Walmart regional distribution centers) to deploy Symbotic's AI-powered robotic warehouse-automation system across Walmart's supply chain.
PartnershipBrain Corp x Walmart
2019-01-01Walmart deployed hundreds of BrainOS-powered autonomous floor-scrubbing robots (Auto-C) across US stores, with Brain Corp providing the autonomy software that converts commercial scrubbers into self-driving machines.
PartnershipSymbotic x Walmart
2017-01-01Walmart, Symbotic's anchor customer and largest shareholder, deploys Symbotic's AI-powered warehouse-automation systems across its US distribution-center network; a 2025 commercial agreement (alongside Symbotic's acquisition of Walmart's robotics business) extended the relationship to Accelerated Pickup and Delivery (micro-fulfillment) centers.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJul 23, 2026
Walmart logo
- Record createdJun 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
- https://www.walmart.com/
- https://corporate.walmart.com/content/dam/corporate/documents/newsroom/2026/02/19/walmart-releases-q4-fy26-earnings/q4-fy26-earnings-call-transcript.pdf
- https://corporate.walmart.com/content/dam/corporate/documents/newsroom/events/2026-icr-conference/ICR-Conference-2026-Transcript.pdf
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-21
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Walmart.Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- Locus Robotics5 models
- Robotphoenix5 models
- Reeman4 models
- Savoye4 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Walmart from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Walmart expands Symbotic warehouse automation deal with $6 billion commitment
Symbotic, a developer of AI-enabled robotics technology for the supply chain, and Walmart have announced an expanded commercial agreement to bring further automation capabilities…
What Symbotic’s Walmart growth teaches robotics startups about anchor customers
Symbotic’s growth with Walmart shows how an anchor customer can fund a robotics startup’s scale while creating risks around customer concentration, contractual restrictions and…
Wing and Walmart Launch Drone Delivery in Charlotte
Walmart customers across the Charlotte metro can now order drone delivery from Wing. The launch is part of an expansion to more than 270 stores over the next year. Wing and…
Walmart to Bring Drone Deliveries to Denver and Seattle
The company has plans to bring the service to 270 Walmart stores by the end of 2027, spanning Cincinnati, Denver, Los Angeles, Memphis and Miami among others.
Walmart opens automation-infused fulfillment center in California
Walmart announced the opening of its fifth next-generation fulfillment center in Stockton, California. The facility, spread across 900,000 square feet, will increase Walmart’s…
Walmart prepares to take off in Amazon’s backyard with Seattle-area drone delivery in 2027
The move is part of a broader nationwide push by Walmart and drone operator Wing — a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet — to scale across nearly 20 U.S. metropolitan areas. Read…
Meta teams up with Bret Taylor’s Sierra Technologies on new standards for AI agent commerce
Meta Platforms Inc. is partnering with Walmart Inc., Stripe Inc. and the enterprise artificial intelligence firm Sierra Technologies Inc. on the creation of new standards that…
Wing and Walmart are bringing drone deliveries to Denver and Seattle in 2027
They can carry payloads up to five pounds.
Wing and Walmart Name Denver and Seattle for 2027 Drone Delivery Expansion
Denver announcement comes as Colorado communities consider local rules for drone delivery infrastructure Wing and Walmart have named the Denver and Seattle metropolitan areas as…
Produce industry headlines: August 3, 2026
Catch up on July's grocery executive changes, Walmart's drone delivery expansion, growers' response to rising input costs, and more. The post Produce industry headlines: August 3,…
Drone Delivery's Big Week: DoorDash, Walmart, Wing Make Moves
DoorDash earned FAA Part 135 certification for DoorDash Air, Walmart and Wing launched drone delivery across Central Florida, and Flytrex partnered with Nash for multi-modal…
Walmart drone delivery takes off in Apopka, bringing convenience and questions overhead
Walmart and drone operator Wing launched their first Florida delivery service in Apopka with 18 drones at the hub, with three additional locations expected soon.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/walmart.md
- RSS feed: /companies/walmart/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/fea2809b-1e5e-45ba-8b3d-5572f9c55d0e
- Revision history: /companies/walmart/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- Locus Robotics5 models
- Robotphoenix5 models
- Reeman4 models
- Savoye4 models
Video
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Autonomous drone delivery service is expanding in north Texas. A new company that can soon deliver up to eight pounds of groceries at a time is flying in the sk
Walmart in Forsyth County evacuated after threat turns out to be swatting call
Original video credit: IG/apexrotorsolutions. This clip shows an automated launch and loading hub operated by Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery company, in partn
Local Walmart sells multi-million-dollar jackpot winning scratch-off ticket
Heat Index
Serious65/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Walmart draws attention at the 98th percentile but verifies reality at the 12th percentile among AMRs. Hype Gap +86.3, 1st widest among AMRs.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 1 verified deployment. Broad public reach with 4.2M video views. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 29, 2026