# Walmart plans to invest about $6 billion to deploy Symbotic automation systems in 25 distribution centers

- Source: Automated Warehouse
- Published: 2026-10-30T18:40:25.000Z
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## Summary

Walmart announced this week that it plans to add Symbotic automation systems to 25 regional distribution centers, with an initial commitment of about $6 billion across multiple locations over several years. The two parties have collaborated since a 2017 pilot in Brooksville, Florida; starting in 2021 they deployed automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) and palletizing robots, and in 2022 they increased the planned number of facilities to 42.