[(Title)]EXCLUSIVE: Walmart unveils grocery-picking robots in test store

There could be a future where robots will do most of your grocery shopping for you.

将来，机器人可能会为您完成大部分的杂货采购。

And for some Walmart shoppers, that future is getting even closer.

对沃尔玛超市的顾客来说，这一天越来越近了。

Walmart (), the world’s largest seller of groceries, will begin piloting a robotics system for its fast-growing online grocery pickup (OGP) service in one of its stores.

全球最大的食品销售商沃尔玛（Walmart）将开始试行一个机器人系统，为其一家商店快速增长的网上购物提供服务。

The retailer has teamed up with Massachusetts-based  to deploy its Alphabot, in its supercenter store in Salem, New Hampshire just off of Interstate 93.

沃尔玛已经与位于马萨诸塞州的公司合作，在其位于新罕布什尔州塞勒姆，93号州际公路旁的购物中心内部署了Alphabot。

“This is about the evolution of retail,” Alert Innovation CEO John Lert told Yahoo Finance.

Alert创新首席执行官约翰·勒特(John Lert)表示：“这就是零售业演变。

“So, we believe that this really marks the dawn of a new era and in which robots are going to increasingly pick orders for customers and relieve them of that burden.”

“因此，我们相信，这的确标志着一个新时代的开始，在这个时代，机器人将为顾客挑选订单并减轻他们的负担。

Alphabot automates specific steps of the online grocery pickup process by using autonomous mobile carts to gather shelf-stable, refrigerated, and frozen items from a high-density storage system.

Alphabot利用自动移动车从高密度存储系统中收集货架稳定、冷冻和冷冻的物品，使网上购物程序的具体步骤自动化。

Alphabot’s robotic carts retrieve and deliver these items to associates to quickly fulfill online orders.

Alphabot的机器人检索并把这些物品交给相关员以快速完成在线订单。

What’s more, all of this happens at the back of the store, out of the view of customers.

更重要的是，所有这一切都发生在商店的内部，不在顾客的视野之内。

An inventor, who was one person put it is the “Walt Disney of retail,” Lert has envisioned a supermarket that would deploy robots for more than 24 years, well before the rise of e-commerce.

被称为“零售业的沃特·迪士尼”的Lert在电子商务兴起的24年前设想过一个由机器人管理的超市。

“My passion was trying to figure out how to automate a supermarket,” he said.

“我正设法弄明白如何使超市自动化，”他说。

He explained that while there’s value in shopping for fresh items like peaches and steak, pacing grocery store aisles for packaged goods is a “chore” for the customer who is essentially an “unpaid warehouse worker filling their own orders.”

他解释说，虽然购买像桃子和牛排这样的新鲜食材很重要，但是对于顾客来说商品的打包是苦差事。

Alphabot is supposed to make the job of the customer and the associate easier.

Alphabot会使客户和超市的工作更加容易.

Its aim is to allow associates to complete more orders faster than they would by simply walking up and down the aisles in search of goods.

它的目的是让超市员工完成更多的订单，而不仅仅是在在走廊里兜兜转转寻找商品。

It also frees up time for associates to carefully select fresh produce and meat while the robots do the other work behind the scenes.

它还为超市员工腾出时间仔细选择新鲜农产品和肉类，而机器人则在做其他工作。

For the customer, it saves time and keeps prices low.

对客户来说, 这节约了时间,使价格保持优惠。

In the last few years, Walmart has made a significant push in the online grocery pickup space.

在过去的几年里，沃尔玛在网上购物领域有重大突破。

Presently, the service is available in 1,800 stores with plans to expand to more than 2,000 by the end of this year.

目前，这项服务已在1 800家商店提供，计划到今年年底扩大到2 000多家。

On October 1, the Salem store will have the online grocery pickup and soon after the first-ever Alphabot technology.

10月1日，Salem商店将推出在线购物服务，并第一次使用Alphabot技术。

One of the issues facing retail today is how to combine brick-and-mortar retail with e-commerce in a seamless experience.

今天零售业面临的一个问题是如何将实体零售与电子商务结合起来，实现无缝对接。

Walmart, known for its “everyday low prices,” pays associates to pick and pack orders placed online.

以“日常低价”而闻名的沃尔玛雇佣员工为网络订单挑选和打包商品。

Alphabot is designed to make that process more efficient and cost-effective and improve the job for the associate.

Alphabot的设计是为了使这一过程更有效率和成本效益，并改善员工工作。

“It’s going to help our associates operate really efficiently. It’s going to help drive great accuracy and great consistency for our customers,” Tom Ward, Vice President Digital Operations, Online Grocery & Last Mile at Walmart, told Yahoo Finance.

“这将有助于我们的员工真正有效地运作。 它将有助于为我们的客户提供高精度的订单。“沃尔玛数字运营副总裁Tom Ward告诉雅虎财经。