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British supermarket Ocado is using robots to make online grocery shopping faster
- ggm 8y agoThe video was disappointing because how little of the pickup and put-down it showed. It also interlaced the experimental picker arm, which the article makes much clearer isn't really in deployment. This is a box picker for humans to use to have boxes put in front of them, to pick from. not that it isn't super good. I could believe an Amazon scale warehouse could do this. May do this, perhaps less effectively for the older ones. or the British Library could do this, for books. It obviously works at scale for any 'find me this UPN' in some storage method. the video just needed a bit MOAR IMNSHO. the footage of the robots was cute, but we need to see them do the lift-and-drop work too. I think the best question a commodity supplier in bulk could be asked is "how can we change packaging to make it easier for 'bots to pick-and-place" so that the robot arm and suction cup model can feed back into package and unit-packaging design decisions.