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Ocado invests $287m in two robot firms
3 November 2020
The online UK supermarket Ocado has bought two North American robotics companies to enhance robot picking in its warehouses and expand its client base
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Delivering on e-commerce
3 January 2019
Warehouses are becoming highly automated facilities that rely to a large extent on vision, as Abigail Williams discovers
Automating grocery shopping
27 March 2018
Matthew Dale explores how online supermarket Ocado is using 3D vision to automate its warehouses
Shipping containers to be unloaded by vision-equipped robots
30 January 2018
A collaborative research project between academic and commercial entities is exploring how a combination of imaging, machine learning and robotics could be used to automate the unloading of standard 40-foot shipping containers
Ocado online supermarket trials collaborative robot
12 January 2018
British online supermarket, Ocado, is trialling a prototype collaborative robot designed to support human technicians maintain and repair equipment in the company’s automated warehouses
Ocado turns to 3D vision in robot picking solution
4 December 2017
Researchers at Ocado Technology, the tech division of the online supermarket Ocado, have developed a prototype robot picking solution that uses a 3D vision system to identify and pick up objects from crates
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A roundup of some of the latest embedded vision technology
Glass inspection normally involves different illumination methods. Credit: MSTVision
Tim Hayes provides a window into how to find defects in glass
Mathias Bochow, GFZ Helmholtz Centre, Potsdam, is working on the Trace project to track marine plastic. Credit: Frank Schweikert, Aldebaran Marine Research & Broadcast (www.aldebaran.org/en/)
Abigail Williams speaks to scientists tracking marine plastic using satellite spectral imagery
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Tim Reynolds finds out how vision and AI algorithms are making cities safer
Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision
Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision, on how the mechanical engineering sector could be affected by the war in Ukraine
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Greg Blackman examines the importance of Tower foundries to machine vision sensor firms, following Intel’s acquisition
