The Gigantic Grocery Warehouses Built like Living Organisms

Ocado, the world's largest online-only grocery retailer, relies on robots to deliver fresh food to hundreds of thousands of people in the UK. Its warehouses are designed like living organisms - there's a central nervous system (software), a cardiovascular system (conveyor belts) and red blood cells (crates).
But as online shopping becomes more popular, Ocado is looking to new distribution systems to meet the growing demand.
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[@khurrumahmad]

My first ever job was in ocado. Fascinating place. The sheer ammount of automation was amazing. Lol when I was working there the bagging machine was just being tested out and workers were induvisually putting three bags on each tote by hand. I guess they are all reassigned somewhere else now.

[@c.b.7153]

“uses robots to deliver your food” *toilet paper in one basket* “Who likes to eat toilet paper?”

[@ausintune9014]

Charles Bareng normal you need toilet paper INSTANTLY

[@SmokeAwayyy]

4:36 "human-robot working together in harmony for a very long time to come." lol that's not how this works.

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

*Wonderful technology* that will help to improve the competition in Internet shops. Such warehouses allow the different companies to compete on the same level, if all the warehouses are like that one.

[@Frediloc8]

I was with this guy until he said improving productivity means "human and robot working together in harmony for a very long time." This is just some straight PR-saving bullshit. The natural end-point of this trend is robots working...by themselves...with as few humans in the way as possible. Automation by definition means cutting out more and more people from your workforce.

[@legobrickabrac]

Even the best machine can't pick as fast as human's.

[@-cheshire-cat]

@@legobrickabrac For now..

[@legobrickabrac]

@@-cheshire-cat No where nere, trust Me 😀

[@exactspace]

Why is the interview audio so much louder than the narrator?

[@rowland5951]

Amazon will buy this company.

[@adriatic123]

It will not because this co is inefficient

[@legobrickabrac]

No they won't.

[@legobrickabrac]

@FRED gravet Because Amizon see Ocado as dirrect compation and actively been doing what ever they can to stop Ocado comming to America.

[@legobrickabrac]

@@adriatic123 It's not inefficient at all.

[@bryanchannell7715]

Ins ecosystem?

[@alisher1984]

0:10 "But have you ever wondered where all that food comes from?" A farm, maybe? I've never seen food grow in a warehouse.

[@WitheredFreddo]

This is awsome

[@WitheredFreddo]

Imagine robot animal workers helping with this...

[@machtundrebel3127]

Automation is great, what we need to find out is how we can let everyone benefit from the work of robots. Not only companies and individual rich dudes should rake in the profits, everybody needs to get at least a small piece of the cake. Then we can bring automation to its full potential and spend our time with projects we actually love, rather than grinding bullshit jobs for a few bucks and an empty heart.

[@Jorge-sy4bp]

no dumbass, if you are not part of providing the value keep your beautiful mouth silenced and watch the geniuses go organically richer.

[@mrdeathgaming1457]

The real owners will never allow that.

[@yt-xo4lb]

Where UK throws out all that plastic?

[@limesaviation2602]

Jānis R when u get the bags deliverd on your next ocado dillivery the next time u order they take the bags and recycle them

[@Funtimes670]

They have built 2 monuments that in its 3rd update completely changed. The first 2 have spent millions to buy and maintain that equipment and now would be too costly to change to the more efficient 3rd design. These guys need to learn lean.

[@andrewhughes8687]

Yep. You were right (sarcasm). As if now, 4 online in the UK, plus 4 being completed to start this year. 2 online in the USA, plus 21 being built, 1 in Canada plus 3, 1 in France, plus 1, and 1 or 2 in each of Australia, Sweden and Japan. I guess they learned how to build lean then?

[@tristissimvshominvm8999]

There goes the beginning of the end of the order selector.

[@mrdeathgaming1457]

When humans have been removed from the economy then no economy, how can corporates not realise this?

[@pocketman5510]

crazy

[@fredflintstone6338]

Share the wealth

[@g00rb4u]

I feel sorry for that dude, he took one hell of a beating from the ugly stick.

[@NaveenKumar-oj7xh]

Great. Now can we use robots to grow and harvest organic food without poisonous pesticides and fertilizers?

[@FatGuyInaTruck]

Naveen Kumar as opposed to all those organic pesticides and fertilizers? You know, the ones that are just as bad, if not worse, than all those "chemikills" made by man?

[@IowaKim]

Naveen Kumar it's being worked on as we speak.

[@ivan_toriya]

«Factorio» in real life

[@matthewstephens8215]

Lol how hard is it to go to the grocery store

[@legobrickabrac]

Busy parents who both work and have kids at school would rather place a repeat order then getting the car ready driving to the store finding parking. Walking around for an hour to fill there trolley then packing the car, then filling up with gas, then go home.

[@KimiHayashi]

why order online? dont you wanna go to the supermarket or fresh market and be able to have the freedom of picking the items up yourself? being able to choose and feel them before you put them in your cart? not everything has to be done online you know

[@kyoko703]

#Yang2020 #YangGang

[@DeZiio]

How'd that work out

[@MoreThanJustaHobby]

What happens when the power goes out? Like the human body I hope it does not have a Brain Aneurysm.

[@Elon..Musk.X]

We love and cherish ground breaking technology without thinking the impact on the very society we live in

[@MsSomeonenew]

And yet the very society we live in exists because of many ground breaking technologies, without them we would be living in caves.

[@chansonkun7989]

RIP Human Jobs

[@circusboy90210]

Chanson Kun only idiots don't go shopping for their own food. Not going to happen

[@davidwilliston1209]

How do you feed the population when there is a serious disaster and the power is out?

[@Sulfen]

This is good for everyone in the long term but short term it’s going to cause an economic depression unless laws are changed to prevent it.

[@SrFulanoTal]

INS ECOSYSTEM .. look it up

[@politicalstatus197]

This is extremely inefficient. Amazon has designed much better efficient warehouses that store a lot more and doesn't get "clogged" as easily.

[@legobrickabrac]

Ocado pick is at least 50× faster than Amizon for retail food shopping that sells Ambient, chill and freezer goods. I know for a fact that Amazon don't do chill and freezer goods so you don't know what your on about.

[@politicalstatus197]

@@legobrickabrac Ever heard of Wholefoods? You don't know what you're on about, and show me the numbers and statistics backing up your claim "50x faster"

[@legobrickabrac]

@@politicalstatus197 I work at Ocado so I think I know exactly how it works.

[@dimitariliyanov3680]

@@legobrickabrac If ocado's individual robots solution was more effective, then Amazon would have implemented it long time ago.

[@legobrickabrac]

@@dimitariliyanov3680 Not really as the goods sold or completly different. Ocado systems focus on mainly food retail where as Amizon is not food focused.

[@dbanexus2660]

another robot hand designed as a human hand.... C'mon ppl! get rid of the pinkie and put another thumb on that side... two thumbs and three fingers on each hand? you know that would be more useful. and btw how did we evolve out of a prehensile tail???? Where's the advantage of not having one of those?

[@MsSomeonenew]

Sadly the idea that evolution only moves toward a better system is very wrong, realistically anything that can make it in this world will keep on going with all it's oddities combined. So the tail thing might have just been one of those oddities that weren't necessary for survival.

[@malikjalaluddin3239]

Grocery growing should b all robotic electric solar nanotech AI fast agrobotica agriculture, stand with the farmers .

[@benny3262]

Digitalisierung

[@AriVovp]

I HOPE HE AND HIS ENTIRE FAMILY NEVER VISIT A PHYSICAL STORES AGAIN. THINK OF HOW TECHNOLOGY BRINGING PEOPLE APART NOWADAY

[@openmind2161]

Soon there won't be any job left & there won't be any buyers for these Robot firm to sell their product .To earn money first you need to generate money for the buyers

[@Tonyx.yt.]

John Jeffry rich people still rich, even more rich, the problem is for working class people...

[@LeonardoZhou]

world's largest online-only grocery retailer, LOL. not even the top 20

[@HermanWillems]

Then can you tell me which one is the largest ONLINE-ONLY grocery retailer ?

[@souravchoudhury3698]

I see unemployment

[@forrestkeller3867]

I see great opportunity, where people will now work in higher level jobs, and the standard of living goes up...

[@jchristian8413]

I see eugenics

[@The_Revolutionist]

I see communism.

[@swengross46]

I see mountains of cash burnt if such overblown endeavor fails. (which is compensated by ...)

[@yt-xo4lb]

The rich will be rich and for other immigrants, they will do there dirty job if they even can find one.

[@ViolentKisses87]

Implying humans are nessicary or efficent. When the machines themselves are smart enough to call for repairs when needed.

[@circusboy90210]

Slower than humans and cost way more while being ineffective.

[@Scarletraven87]

Regarding jobs: With great $ power, comes great responsability. We can no longer have such low taxes on world owning business companies.

[@circusboy90210]

Only an idiot does purchase their food where they don't pick out the food themselves. It's about 12 quality.

[@adriatic123]

It is much more efficient to hire humans in the warehouse and spend only fraction of investment in this robotic warehouse to experiment with robot technology until they find cheap and efficient system. What they are dong now is spending huge amounts of money on robot systems that will become obsolete in a couple of years. Hugely wasted money, they will never become profitable by using this path. Efficiency is the king in this business, not fancy innovation. This warehouse system costs hundreds of millions, it will never be recouped because technology development is moving so fast and quickly becomes obsolete..

[@davidhunter1538]

Robotics in manufacturing, transportation, construction, mining, retail, warehousing and hospitality is going to throw millions out of the workforce, even the chinese, who will shortly lose their cheap labor advantage and become unemployed also. Gangs of unemployed, broke and aimless youths will roam the streets at night looking for excitement. We'd better build robocops too :(

[@leebennett949]

I know what happens there 🤢

[@Black_Cryptocurrency]

and human will lost job..

[@galexeqe]

All this automation, what are PEOPLE supposed to do, not everyone can be a computer programmer. We piss away millions if not BILLIONS in aid each year to third world countries, what happens in FIRST world countries when we have to do the same because of no jobs due to automation

[@casualbrowser407]

The answer is, we need more diversity

[@R2Bl3nd]

The voiceover for this video could have been done by someone with actual training in voiceover work, and who knew how to pronounce words.

[@ayahuascamaharaja]

R2Bl3nd i think he did just fine.

[@R2Bl3nd]

ayahuascamaharaja sure, it was adequate, it just felt very amateurish

[@janeblogs324]

its true

[@tjejojyj]

I didn’t mind the pronunciation but there were problems in the script. 1. “designed to mimic the human body”. The designer himself says it’s an useful analogy but that’s not a source of the design. It should have been “the design mimics the human body” 2. “there’s an algorithm that knows where every crate is”. The algorithm doesn’t “know” this, the algorithm knows where every crate should be as he describes why. A bit pedantic perhaps, but algorithm has a common meaning. Interesting video nonetheless.

[@PacoOtis]

Why the horrible intrusive music? Did an adult review this video prior to release? Best of luck, but this is terrible.

[@vickyvonstein2331]

there is no way a computer can tell the difference between a potato and a tomato.

[@yt-xo4lb]

Machine learning is already here.

[@souravsen5773]

Actually they can. Machines will use Artificial Intelligence to detect softness and color and shape.

[@vickyvonstein2331]

only a brainwashed sheep regurgitates what they see on TV....

[@vickyvonstein2331]

you just proved that you are not capable of independent thought.... you only have the brains to repeat the status quo.....

[@vickyvonstein2331]

HAHA Kindergarten.... Yes, a 5yo is smarter than you you sanjaayx