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Q&A: Alex Harvey from Ocado Technology discusses the challenges of bringing machine vision automation into grocery distribution

"Ocado Technology designs, builds and supports the automation technology that optimises every stage of the online grocery operation," said the company's chief engineering officer, Alex Harvey

"Ocado Technology designs, builds and supports the automation technology that optimises every stage of the online grocery operation," said the company's chief engineering officer, Alex Harvey. Image: Ocado Technology

Ocado Technology’s distribution system uses an air-traffic-control-like AI model to orchestrate hundreds of retrieval bots. Here, the online grocery giant’s chief engineering officer, Alex Harvey, tells Imaging & Machine Vision Europe how it’s done.

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