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The AI-powered robot army that packs your groceries in minutes

FOX News

A fully automated warehouse system is changing the way we shop for groceries. Imagine a grocery store where your entire order is picked, packed and ready for delivery in just five minutes without a single human hand touching your food. This is exactly what's happening inside Ocado's revolutionary Hive, a fully automated warehouse system that's changing the way we shop for groceries. At the core of Ocado's Customer Fulfilment Centres, or CFCs, is The Hive, a massive 3D grid filled with thousands of grocery products. GET SECURITY ALERTS & EXPERT TECH TIPS -- SIGN UP FOR KURT'S THE CYBERGUY REPORT NOW Picture fleets of robots or "bots" zipping around at speeds up to about 9 miles per hour, all coordinated by an AI-powered "air traffic control" system that talks to each bot ten times every second.


Truly autonomous cars may be impossible without helpful human touch

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An operator controls a Fetch driverless car from the office of Imperium Drive, during driverless car trials, in Milton Keynes, Britain, June 8, 2022. MILTON KEYNES, England (Reuters) -Autonomous vehicle (AV) startups have raised tens of billions of dollars based on promises to develop truly self-driving cars, but industry executives and experts say remote human supervisors may be needed permanently to help robot drivers in trouble. The central premise of autonomous vehicles – that computers and artificial intelligence will dramatically reduce accidents caused by human error – has driven much of the research and investment. But there is a catch: Making robot cars that can drive more safely than people is immensely tough because self-driving software systems simply lack humans' ability to predict and assess risk quickly, especially when encountering unexpected incidents or "edge cases." "Well, my question would be, 'Why?'" said Kyle Vogt, CEO of Cruise, a unit of General Motors (NYSE:GM), when asked if he could see a point where remote human overseers should be removed from operations.


Ocado is using an army of 2,000 robots in its East London fulfilment centre

Daily Mail - Science & tech

It may look like a nightmare sequence from a science fiction film, but a network of fast-working robots is now hard at work in East London. British grocery giant Ocado is using an army of robots at its 563,000 square foot warehouse in Erith next to the Thames to gather up items for customer orders. More than 2,000 robots are working there non-stop for 20 hours a day, each picking up to 2 million food items in a shift – far beyond the capability of a human worker. The eight-wheeled robots scoot around a giant grid-like structure called the'Hive', so-called for its honeycomb-like holes that contain inventory. Powered by an algorithm, the robots pick up crates of items to take to a human to put into shopping bags for delivery.


Product Manager - Computer Vision

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"We are on a mission: to transform the future of online grocery through cutting-edge technology innovation." Ocado Technology is changing the way the world shops using advanced Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, Big Data, Cloud and IoT. We develop the innovative software and hardware systems that power Ocado.com, as well as the unique'Ocado Smart Platform' which is being implemented by ambitious retailers across the world from Europe to America, Asia and beyond. We build everything in-house: from intelligent, frictionless e-commerce platforms to highly automated warehouses, our employees are skilled specialists with expertise across a wide range of technologies. We're working on cutting-edge innovations that are shaping the future of our society.


What Is MLOps? An Introduction to Machine Learning Operations

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Unless you already have a specific amount of training, you may be asking yourself, "What is MLOps?" In machine learning engineering, MLOps is a critical component focusing on optimizing the process of both deploying machine learning models and maintaining machine learning models. MLOps cannot be handled by a single position, but requires a team typically made up of data scientists, DevOps (development operations) engineers, and IT professionals. In this guide, we will break down what MLOps stands for, how it is used, and how to get started effectively using MLOps for your projects and goals. MLOps stands for machine learning operations.


New robots--smarter and faster--are taking over warehouses

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A DECADE AGO Amazon started to introduce robots into its "fulfilment centres", as online retailers call their giant distribution warehouses. Instead of having people wandering up and down rows of shelves picking goods to complete orders, the machines would lift and then carry the shelves to the pickers. That saved time and money. Amazon now has more than 350,000 robots of various sorts deployed worldwide. But it is not enough to secure its future.


Software Engineer - Computer Vision

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"We are on a mission to transform the future of grocery retail through sustained technology innovation." Ocado Technology is putting the world's retailers online using advanced artificial intelligence, robotics, big data, the cloud and IoT. We develop the innovative software and hardware systems that power Ocado.com, as well as the unique'Ocado Smart Platform' which is being implemented by ambitious retailers across the world from Europe to America, Asia and beyond. With everything from websites to highly automated warehouses that we design in-house, our employees are skilled specialists with expertise across a wide range of technologies, working on cutting-edge innovations that are shaping the future of our society. We are a fast- growing company: today we have colleagues in 7 development centre across the UK and Europe, with offices open in London, Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City (UK), Krakow, Wroclaw (Poland), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Barcelona (Spain), with a satellite office in Stockholm (Sweden).


A robot collision sparked a fire at the UK's top online grocer

Engadget

Robots are credited with boosting efficiency in some industrial use cases. But, as a major UK grocery service just found out, that doesn't mean they're not accident-prone like humans. Ocado -- which competes with Amazon Fresh -- has been forced to cancel orders for some customers after a robot collision sparked a fire at its warehouse in south-east London. The incident appeared to involve three bots on the grid and led to the evacuation of its Erith customer fulfilment center, the company said. Ocado revealed that the fire triggered the site's sprinkler system, but was contained by its mitigation measures.


Data Scientist

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Data Science is responsible for designing cutting-edge machine learning and optimisation techniques to convert data into important business insights and efficient operations. We focus on machine learning and optimisation problems across Ocado's ecommerce - from recommending products to customers, to search optimisation and intelligent substitutions. Our data is stored in Google BigQuery, we work primarily in Python for machine learning and use frameworks such as Spark and TensorFlow. What would I be doing? Ocado Technology is putting the world's retailers online using advanced artificial intelligence, robotics, big data, the cloud and IoT.


Software Engineer - Computer Vision

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"We are on a mission to transform the future of grocery retail through sustained technology innovation." Ocado Technology is putting the world's retailers online using advanced artificial intelligence, robotics, big data, the cloud and IoT. We develop the innovative software and hardware systems that power Ocado.com, as well as the unique'Ocado Smart Platform' which is being implemented by ambitious retailers across the world from Europe to America, Asia and beyond. With everything from websites to highly automated warehouses that we design in-house, our employees are skilled specialists with expertise across a wide range of technologies, working on cutting-edge innovations that are shaping the future of our society. We are a fast- growing company: today we have colleagues in 7 development centre across the UK and Europe, with offices open in London, Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City (UK), Krakow, Wroclaw (Poland), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Barcelona (Spain), with a satellite office in Stockholm (Sweden).