Imagine a grocery store, where your full order is raised, packed and prepared for delivery in just five minutes, which is just five minutes without touching your food.
This is exactly what is happening inside the revolutionary high of Ocado, a completely automatic warehouse system that is changing the way of shopping for grocery accessories.
What is hive?
Ocado’s customer supply centers, or at the core of CFCs, have hives, a huge 3D grid filled with thousands of grocery products.
Robot’s picture fleet or “bots” zipping around at a speed of approximately 9 mph, all are coordinated by an AI-powered “air traffic control” system that speaks every second ten times from each bot. These work together to take and transport bot items, which are then packed by robotic weapons with incredible accuracy and speed.
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Robot fleet (Ocado)
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How does all this come together?
The magic behind the high is the smart platform of Okado, which combines artificial intelligence, robotics and automation to deal with unique challenges of online grocery purchases. Factors such as tight profit margin, comprehensive variety of customers customers order and require products to handle at various temperatures, make all the online grocery items a hard walnuts to crack. But Ocado has been developing this technique for 20 years, and shows it.
Thanks to this platform, a 50-utm grocery order can be raised and packed only five minutes, six times faster than traditional methods. Robotic weapons do not pack items just by closing the eye. They use advanced computer vision and deep learning to make smart decisions on fly, grocery items thick and safely packing even without knowing what is coming next.
And behind the curtain, Ocado uses digital twin techniques, essentially a virtual replica of the warehouse, from the customer demand to the delivery routes to simulate and optimize everything. This means that it can quickly innovate before changing the real world and reduce risks.
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Robot fleet (Ocado)
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Does it make it so revolutionary?
The speed and scale of the high are actually game-changing. The orders that take more than an hour to take manually are made in minutes now, and many orders can be processed at the same time. In addition, Ocado’s warehouses can offer 78% more products than a specific supermarket, giving customers very wide selection to suit their preferences.
The system also helps in reducing food waste dramatically. Okado’s waste rate is a small part of the average of the industry, thanks to smart forecasting and accurate inventory management.
Another major benefit is flexibility. Hive modular design means that retailers can up or down their operations depending on their needs. Whether it is a huge warehouse, which is serving throughout the region or a small supply center of customers for rapid delivery, technology adaps.
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Grocery items chosen and packed by AI robot (Ocado)
So, how do you really use this robot-powered grocery technology?
If you live in an area served by Croger’s delivery network in the US, you can order grocery items via the Croger website or app. Behind the curtain, your order is chosen and packed by hundreds of AI-powered robots, known as hives in a supply center. Then, a croger associate transports your grocery accessories directly to your door, often in less time than traditional delivery. The system is the result of a partnership between Okado and Koger, which brings advanced automation in American grocery delivery.
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Just beyond grocer
Is it exciting that Okado’s innovations do not stop at grocery shopping. The same robotics, AI and automation principles are being discovered for other uses, such as vertical farming, aided stay, car parking and even airport goods handling. Hive is paving the way for clever, more automatic logistics in many industries.
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Kurt’s major takeaways
It is very incredible to imagine your entire grocery order and is being packed in just five minutes, without really handling your food. It is exactly to make the grocery purchases faster, easier and more reliable than Okado’s high, smart robot and AI.
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