{
  "id": 14259535,
  "title": "AI Robots Are Ready for Whatever Shoppers Send Back",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/ai-robots-are-ready-for-whatever-shoppers-send-back",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-13T18:06:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/ai-robots-are-ready-for-whatever-shoppers-send-back/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Every returned item has to be picked up, identified and sorted before it can be sold again, and that work has long resisted automation. “If a system only works on articles it has seen before, it does not work in a returns operation at all,” Ralf Gulde, co-founder and CEO of German robotics software company […] The post AI Robots Are Ready for Whatever Shoppers Send Back appeared first on…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}