Ocado invests $287m in two robot firms
The online UK supermarket Ocado has bought two North American robotics companies to enhance robot picking in its warehouses and expand its client base
The online UK supermarket Ocado has bought two North American robotics companies to enhance robot picking in its warehouses and expand its client base
Warehouses are becoming highly automated facilities that rely to a large extent on vision, as Abigail Williams discovers
Matthew Dale explores how online supermarket Ocado is using 3D vision to automate its warehouses
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
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
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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