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Inside A Warehouse Where Thousands Of Robots Pack Groceries

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A look inside Ocado's automated warehouse where thousands of robots coordinate over a 4G network to pack groceries.

Ocado's new warehouse has thousands of robots zooming around a grid system to pack groceries. The thousands of robots can process 65,000 orders every week. They communicate on a 4G network to avoid bumping into each other. Is this the future of retail? See more from Ocado: ocado.com/ Tech Insider tells you all you need to know about tech: gadgets, how-to's, gaming, science, digital culture, and more. Subscribe to our channel and visit us at: businessinsider.com/sai TI on Facebook: facebook.com/techinsider TI on Instagram: instagram.com/tech_insider/ TI on Twitter: twitter.com/techinsider

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programdon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Amazon hid its safety crisis”

THe Kiva video is not state-of-the-art I think. Check out this automated grocery warehouse, something right out of Factorio: link to this video Humans would just get in the way and get mangled.
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mdagcilaron Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)”

Ocado Technology | Software Engineer | Hatfield UK | ONSITE If you've never heard of Ocado Technology you can take a look at some of our bots picking groceries for our customers: link to this video Graduates - link Wide variety of experienced roles - link If you'd like to get in touch I'd be happy to talk about roles and go into more details about the company culture and our engineering practices. Please contact my via email. link Thanks, Metin Software Engineer at Ocado Technology (EMEA) metindagcilar@gmail.com
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cesarbon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Boston Dynamics’ new robot stacks boxes [video]”

Fascinating video. Youtube suggested as the next video link to this video and that one has at 2:52 what seems to be a maintenance vehicle placed over the same rails as the robots, so that might explain how the maintenance crew can do its job (the one in the video is labeled "Recovery 04", so my guess is that the main purpose of this one is to allow maintenance workers to rescue stuck robots).
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dmixon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Instacart announces new Covid-19 policies and plans to hire 250k more shoppers”

…e UK has already mastered this: > The Ocado Andover CFC is a three-storey grid of storage crates containing groceries. On top of the grid a fleet of 1,100 robots grab items and deliver them to “pick stations” where “personal shoppers” assemble orders for delivery. According to Ocado, an order of 50 items takes five minutes to pick and pack. link link to this video Google "automated grocery distribution", there's plenty of examples. This is essentially unskilled labour moving boxes from one point to another. The exception is vegetables/fruit where a human discards the bad stuff before it goes into another box for delivery on a truck. 95% of that process could be automated. Including eventually the del…
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javiramoson Hacker News • Mentions

On “Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online”

Ocado is an amazing company. Their warehouses are a beautiful feat of automation 0. They have signed deals with a few U.S. supermarket chains so you should expect the Ocado experience in the sometime in the near future. EDIT: Their other robotic platform 1 0 link 1 link to this video
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MrDresdenon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles”

I genuinely feel for the people laid off. With that said, wont Instacart, and other similar business models that rely on grocery stores and human labour to fulfill the orders, simply start becoming obsolete in the coming few years as robotic fulfillment centers0 start popping up all over the place? Perhaps these centers will not service the most rural of places, but then again I imagine these services (i.e Instacart) are mostly used in more densely populated areas anyway. link to this video
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isbvhodnvemrwvnon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: What happened to robots taking all our jobs?”

…system (e.g. due to poor master data), but when I was leaving they were not planning on any new "classic" warehouses. I don't want to disclose where I worked, but you can take a look at Ocado, they are in a similar space (although focused on a different target market) and expanding from being online grocer to making those FCs for other companies: link to this video…
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heuriskoon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B”

I expect this is to gain patents/technology around making autonomous robots, so that Amazon can create a warehouse system similar to Ocado, where robots, rather than people, pick groceries. link to this video
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