Inside A Warehouse Where Thousands Of Robots Pack Groceries
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2018
- Ocado's new warehouse has thousands of robots zooming around a grid system to pack groceries. The thousands of robots can process 65,000 orders every week. They communicate on a 4G network to avoid bumping into each other. Is this the future of retail?
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Very poor video. 4 minutes of rolling robots !
What do they do, where does the produce enter the system, how does the robot pack the crate, how do the crates move.
VERY uninformative.
Not by humans. Goodbye JOBS.....yellow Venezuelamerica
The system is called AutoStore.
Suspect a lot of that is commercially sensitive. But I thought the same. Anyway, sadly they were hit by a HUGE fire last week. Hopefully it will be up and running again soon.
Yeah. I just found this channel today and have been rummaging through the video selection and although there are many videos that seem interesting, I found pretty much all of the ones I tried so far to be uninformative and disappointing. They all have this weird smoke and mirrors BS thing going on, where they seem to try to hide the fact that they deliver almost no actual information with a lot of repetitive video material of shit moving around. What I mean is, I don't just have the feeling of having watched a badly made video, I get the feeling some scammer is trying to bamboozle me and jingle a set of keys in front of my eyes, like I'm a baby. There seems to be a weird and counter intuitive market on UA-cam, of science and tech themed videos, made for really low IQ people. I don't get it. Are people who are too dumb to notice how bad, hollow and empty those videos are, really that interested in this science and tech stuff?
The robots pick up the crates and carry them inside their bodies. It's not hidden as such, just that no-one thought of making them transparent. You can see them reaching down into the crates, at some points. They're not "just rolling around", they're pick and packing. The more and faster they move crates, the more efficient the warehouse is.
“How do the robots work? They move along a grid system.”
No shit?
@@boblatter3851 who cares
Yeah this video is made by a 15 year old for a presentaion competition.
K Blocks Sane people
TBoy205 under neath the robots there is another floor and on that floor employees are organizing orders and placing them in crates for the robots to take and organize. Also in the video it shows that the robots are just rolling around the grid but what they are actually doing is organizing order, picking, and packing orders. The video doesn’t show very good detail of what they are doing but most of the operations that you can visually see is under neath the robots on the floor below them.
Don't forget the: "How does the system work? The robots act as a giant goods-to-person system."
They are controlled by an air traffic control system
???? 😂😂😂
Frankerzed lol
I was expecting a few planes to land here...😆
The explanation of how they work is ridiculous. I have more questions now than I did before watching this video.
it is the family business only promode thier people
Maybe that was the point of the video?
Dude chill
Imagine a single robot with 1000 arms.
Now imagine those arms are not arms, but just extensions of itself that it can interact with the world via, now imagine they're wireless.
It's a single AI mind controlling a disjointed body, uses lasers to detect when it moves past a square on the grid and the AI tells its body how far to move, when to stop, what it should see, what it should do.
If it sees something other than predicted beneath it, it investigates and waits for new instructions.
They're basically wireless unrigged claw-machine arms with eyes operated by a an AI.
Each tile of the grid has items under it, they deposit, organise and collect items in order to fulfil orders.
Not clearly explained :/
Weird. A lot of video. And no explaination at all.
THey're taking jobs, that's what. Deport all robots!
No explanation NEEDED. Its coming and billions will be WITHOUT jobs
if u r the one who make them.u wont be replace by them
izz Hipp
So you see a robot moving around and it's enough for you. Perhaps some people want to know how these robots pick up 6-pack of bottled water or other bulkier items, or how they assemble large orders where there are more than 2 crates required.
izz Hipp people are a pain in the ass anyway
More information on what the bots are actually doing would be really great.
Do they get assigned one persons order each and travel around until they have all the items, then deliver them to an allocated slot? Or is there one bot per grocery item delivering their one item to all the customer crates that have ordered the item? Or do the bots only replace empty grocery crates? As shown?
It is like in a normal warehouse with people doing it, robots have assigned an station and, that station has assigned a list of items. Robots pick up an item and drop it into a tote
It is like the Amazon robotic fulfillment centers with robots moving shelfs. Each bot moves one tote filled with all of the same item. The totes for one order are all collected together in one long line. At the pick station, the item(s) from the totes are place into the customer order. The totes returns to the grid via the robots. By the way, the pick stations are primarily humans and not robots like shown in this video. Robots are currently not good at handling things like eggs. It should be also noted that each spot in the grid can be up to 7 totes deep (all of the same item).
I've been an Ocado customer for nigh on twenty years. The robot system in Andover is amazing. I've watched these videos many times and I'm still in awe. Absolutely fantastic. I so wish they had open days to actually be there to watch. My orders come from Andover and it would make an old girl really happy to be able to see my weekly order being picked and packed. Wishful thinking I suppose ....
Not very informative.
YOU aren't very informative.
Joyce Ann Warnke High I agree that this wasn't too informative. I want to share this video, but I can't answer basic questions about how this works. Do the robots pick up foods from below? Can they carry more than one item at once? Where do the orders get dropped off? This video didn't answer basic questions...
"How does the system work? … The robots act as a giant goods-to-person system."
Who writes this shit?! That's _what it does_ not _how it works._ Talk about stating the obvious and telling us nothing! They're battery operated, huh? Who would've imagined!
It's amazing that Tech Insider have been given access to film this system, and even shot some beautiful drone footage, but fell short of actually telling us anything useful whatsoever. _facepalm_
@@nagualdesign Ocado is the source of the video, according to the credits. Basically it's an ad for their company that Tech Insider packages as "information. " A lot of so-called news services operate this way now, there's no longer impartial, investigative journalism.
@@Rickyroko I am a driver for Ocado and they've just opened one of these warehouses, also known as CFC's (Customer Fulfillment Center) in Bristol. From what i know about this is, yes the robots pick the shopping from the grid below and then it's taken to a member of staff on a filling station that packs all the shopping into bags.
Leaked video of the new Wall-E movie
Wall-E 2.0 last human on the Earth.
Fury 2k lol
Protip for the developers, wherever they are: If the robots move on aluminum rails, why on earth are you using batteries?
Maybe because supplying xxxx amounts of electricity through alu isnt a good idea?
huraaaaa.... now we have more unemployed people ... thank you ocado
This video does not explain the most basic question: what are these carriages actually doing. I thought they drop stuff into the crates, but they don't. So what do they actually do? Only placing a crate at a certain position? Why?
APolly Indeed! With this it becomes perfectly clear!
"they are using 4G, and thats how they don't crash". LOL
They don't crash because few under payed programmers did the whole job writing the algorithm. 4G is just communication protocol.
4G = 4th generation. it can be of anything mobile network,fighter jet.. robots .. :)
And yet they still crash into eachother and fall over XD
@Richard Hunter cause we work at ocado
@Richard Hunter nah im working in msc now :) but believe me we all get paid the same and them bots are rlly bad
Paid
yeah, but where do the groceries come from in this system?
The bins under each station look like they could be for each individual customer. If so the robots are just fulfilling each order, or?
No, the bins are storage and the robots have an internal bin it seems
.. matrix..
seems they didn't explain this very well in the video
Adam Mackey Smith u yes exactly
I thought this was about Amazon for a second
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*WHY ARE YOU HERE WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE*
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Woah, I had no idea ordering from Ocado was so futuristic! I thought someone went round the warehouse with a shopping list collecting the items, putting them into bags, and then loading the van 🙈 xx
except when their warehouse burns down because no one was onsite to notice the fire. lol.
@@raymond_luxury_yacht actually there are fire detectors in it and would automatically alarm the fire department which might even be more efficient that humans also there are still workers in there maybe just a couple but still
Makes sense why so much of damaged lately amd eggs packed with tins
Maybe there is someone hiding inside each robot ready to grab the items. 😂
My favorite part: 2:02- "How does the system work? The robots act as a giant goods-to-person system." 🤣🤣🤣 Who wrote this script, lol
I wish there was footage of how the pick and pack orders.
This video here is useless.
Interesting footage. From the video, it appears each basket contains a different product and multiple baskets are stacked below. Presumably the robots can lift off the top basket when empty, and a full one is lifted up to take its place. But how does it know where to reach within the basket and which method of lifting to use? Must be multiple arms as a suction cup wouldn't work on a pack of crisps... perhaps they are specialized with different lifting methods, would explain the colour coding of their tops.
What if you wanted to add another grocery items or cancel it. And the paid was already made? How would that be process if there was a return of 1 item or an additional item to be included?
Meanwhile in the Asda warehouse they have a ZX Spectrum running a Technical Lego robot which is why my shopping always arrives battered and wrong!
Wow! This is a very nice concept.
There are a few things which don't help understand if the stated robots are indeed robots or simply PLC controlled trolleys.
The grid of crates can be seen as an N×M grid of fixed dimension p×q cells and considering the know speed of trolleys and M trolleys, all one needs to do at the back end is to right an algorithm to move the trolleys in direction(seek cell, restore cell, destination) and ensure collision avoidance. All of this can be done through PLC and through ATC, within a stupulated time, a trajectory change if needed for trolleys be programmed or the number of cells to go can be sent in real time. The logic control for this application may be simpler than that for Uber.
At the crate filling end, the robotic arm is not shown to be more than one that allow bar code scanning. But this part is more AI than the one on the grid, however still simpler than robotic arms in car assembly lines.
The question is : Is AI needed for applications for which PLC is just enough.
But it is still a very amazing achievement to be able to 65k orders per week. Good for warehouses, meaning large e commerce companies, but an overkill for retail.
You idiots it's not a nice concept is a concept to eliminate employment
Awesome people don’t understand how good of a thing this is
They all look so HAPPY!
I can imagine the way flying cars communicate being a more complex version of this
This is amazing and scary and cute at the same time. I think I am experiencing future shock for the first time.
Of course it will be the future. It's not a matter of how, it's a matter of when
Great system of robust robotic shipping sortation! 👏 Bravo!
That machine is out there.
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with.
It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop, ever.
Until you are fed.
Insider Team, just curious to know who fills the basket underneath?
2:33
This is how automated cars should be when they communicate to each other to avoid crashing and the quickest lane swerving to get to the destination. Hopefully this system will be in our cars eventually.
I doubt many humans would appreciate such rapid acceleration and deceleration
wish they got more in detail with this i buy ocado love to know how the system works. I get my shopping from Bristol wonder if its the same system??
If one of those things breaks down in the middle. Imagine trying to get to it haha
Haha that’s funny 😂
They have a recovery robot to go collect it.
We have zip lines above to pick them back up again.
call maintenance..
To Genius 😂 What you think they don’t have backup? Or thought about it
This is great! I’m a firm believer that technology should replace humans in mundane, easy, and maybe even dangerous positions so that everyone can have a passion job that they care about rather than a service job that they only do to get by!
Another stellar video that fails to explain what’s going on, bravo!
This caught on fire not so long ago!
These robots are cool. The rate of information made me feel like this was a presentation meant to be accompanied by a speaker.
cool if you want to lose your job
Automation has brought about numerous benefits to different industries and economies around the world. One of the most significant advantages of automation is that it increases productivity, efficiency, and accuracy while reducing the time and costs of production. By automating repetitive, mundane, and physically demanding tasks, human labor can be shifted to more creative and value-adding activities.
Historically, simple tools such as the plow, wheel, and printing press replaced laborers and revolutionized entire industries. Today, robots and other automated technologies are replacing human labor in tasks such as assembly line work, packaging, and material handling. However, this does not necessarily mean that automation will lead to job loss. Instead, it can free up human resources to work on higher value tasks, such as product design, research and development, marketing, and customer service.
Furthermore, automation can create new job opportunities in areas such as maintenance, repair, and programming of the machines. As new technologies are developed, new skills are required, and individuals can adapt to these changes by retraining and learning new skills. By integrating automation, businesses can become more competitive, reduce costs, and increase their profitability, which can lead to expansion and the creation of new job opportunities.
In summary, while automation may displace some jobs, it can also create new opportunities and improve efficiency and productivity in the long run. It's important to remember that automation should be used to complement and enhance human labor, rather than replace it entirely.
Workers: thanks for stealing our work
Imagine how much fun an hacker could have.
Question :
1 : how dig the bin from very bottom? do we need empty rack just for that?
2 : if two or more station have same products, is the bin wait the first station or the system tell the other station to pick from the first station?
3 : since it a system/robots, how to encounter if there is a failure, such jamming, or fire?
I could watch these things rolling around for hours.
Amazon Kiva Stow Systems is more impressive to me than this. How do you fix a robot that breaks down in the middle of the grid?
*robots moving on a grid for 2 min*
"It moves on a grid"
Oh, You don't say?
How vertical is this setup, are there multiple packs underneath the grid structure or only one
the box bottom mid left at 1:16: is that box supposed to be open/broken?
do the robots actually pick any of the items from the crates? this is notoriously difficult and no company as far as I know has a picking robot that can pick diverse items such as a bag of chips, a doll, a packet of biscuits etc with the correct pressure etc without breaking or dropping some items. i would really like to know if this company has solved that as it is a game changer, I strongly suspect they have not
Its in the UK check out other videos there is one that tells you it all and yes it does pick things up.
In 2005, I wrote a speech titled "Imagine a future...", in which I played with the idea of robots controlling every aspect of our daily lives, including work, cleaning, cooking, and exercising (nanobots inserted into the bloodstream to keep us healthy). I was laughed at by my classmates. It's weird how that works.
I'm still laughing.
I worked doing that system with them. Really is an incredible system
@ 2:19 long, descending, sucking prong w/soft gel tip....my fav! @ 1:43 "the robots are battery operated", another fav!!
Hey Alexa fire the Amazon warehouse employees.
POV: you came here after Tom Scott’s video
I didn't.
An explenation could help. These robots are basically digging for a tote , picking it up , holding it inside the robot and than bring it to a human pick station. There the operator picks one or more items from the tote and puts these in a client carton. In the video you also see a cobot doing some picking. Still humans are more efficient for this last stage and able to arrange stuff in a box without braking the lot.
If you electrify the grid(induction?) you can supply them power while they work - no need to stop and charge.
Very very cool video!
The warehouse was caught on fire
Good. Humans will get jobs to build the warehouse again.
Inside each of those robots is a tiny man or woman. No jobs lost.
No there are NOT
You mean midgets?
Babies
Justin Trudeau rang to say we prefer to use 'Porg' (Person of restricted growth). It's more inclusive, apparently, and it is the current year, after all.
Each one of you just broke the law of the PC crowd.
Is there another video showing the full process?
Amazing system!! I had no idea this was happening yet. The future is here!
Who's gonna make a robot that's spits on you're apples 🤣
your apples
This video is missing all the information about how it works. Who wasted their time on it?
All while this video was filmed by a drone to be able to get those shots. Haha. This is so awesome.
How does the food get in the crates to begin with for the robots to pick. And have the robot pick up the food? I didn’t get it from this video
Jeff bezos might replace human workers with robots soon enough
He already is, have you seen HIS automated warehouses?
Jeff bezos hate human! He will replace all with robots if possible!
ULT Denzel Curry I work for Amazon and I can tell you that the addition of automation had not reduced any jobs in my facility. It's allowed us to produce more.
Good. Cheaper prices and faster shipping
He already is, they use robotics from Dematic
The battery-based nonserviceable grid structure almost asks for contitious problems. It has everything ready to go wrong. Not to mention that it wastes the whole floor with just one layer of storage units. Fully automated warehouses is not the future, they exist now. But that thing is an example of how not to build one.
its weird that this set-up only has one layer of storage units, these systems normally go the whole way from the roof down to the floor with just enough space at the top for the robots to move. some robots can sink down to lower layers
O m g ! So many robots working together ! Amazing
More questions than answers, great!
I can see fat me in the floating couch being fed by my robot servants!
They also pack fudge.
Some call it progress,
Others call it corporate greed.
how do the completed orders get to the van ?
How does the pick and place mechanism works?
Nothing was explained
Doesn't need explaining its a over complicated bombay sorter in a jist of it
Very poorly made video. It's just clickbait with absolutely no information. Waist of two minutes of my life when I have so many questions.
@oyeahyeah 98inches
They want to sell shots and brand promotion. Not give trade secrets.
Aquila Latin it's secret probably
Dev S ok
Aquila Latin ya and what do you have? Bring what you have.
I've had dreams at night that look like this 😅
this is the coolest thing iv seen in a while
Wow...and imagine I, as a youngster, had to walk all the way to the back of Ruby Jones's little grocery store in rural Alabama to fetch a cold can of coke. But somehow, the excitement and fun of that little trip stays with me 50+ years later.
This is great! I wouldn't have to go to the grocery store and end up buying more than I needed when I walk around looking for my list.
So satisfying can be put on repeat.
What kind of operations strategy is this, pls someone. Is this a top-down perspective ??
Well if most jobs go automated who will then be able to buy the product.
Oooh! I want to add explosives and make this a really cool minesweeper game.
Why are they picking up an moving packs, how does that add to a sorting algorithm, what are they doing when they stop over a pack space
I am gonna cry. What engineering... Future is now
Wonderful technology that *will save time for the people,* and also will save the fuel that they need to drive to shops. The delivery to many people is more efficient, than driving for every order back and forth to the location of the shop.
Shopping is still fun, but people will do it for fun only, not because we are required to go to a physical store.
Yeap and also will leave thousands if not millions of people without a job… 😅
Why do they need batteries, is'nt it better to just provide power via the rails, like a slotcar racing game ?
funny i thought the samething
Same thought here. Maybe it's less complex than routing power through all those rails.
I think it wastes energy to have a system like you said
@@lakeberg5102 Could be, but i can't think of a reason why... Can you explain why you think it wastes energy ? I'd think the overhead of the charging of batteries, and the innefficiency of them should waste more no ?
Looks like morning traffic, with all the blinking lights. Who fills up the baskets? How do u move groceries off the delivery trucks & pallets?
I recently saw a waaaay smaller sample of probably the same company's work , each bot cost as much as a car, fast and efficient, self optimizing algorithms. the building was constructed with this automated warehouse in mind since the inception.
This warehouse burnt down in February 2019 RIP robots
Good, people need jobs not robots.
The robots self immolation spoke volumes about worker rights and conditions. Power to the workers!
Universal income right around the corner.
Some people say that AI should be considered part of humanity's commons, and all individuals should benefit from a fraction of the wealth AI will produce. Einstein didn't produce his theory of relativity in a vacuum, he needed teachers, school administrators, cleaning ladies, garbage men, sewage cleaners, etc etc. If you take baby Einstein and drop him in the middle ages he would grow up working hard for a piece of bred and a good nights sleep, instead of having the luxury to ponder mathematics - and he would very much agree with this, since he wrote extensively about social matters like equality and justice, even saying that he isn't so much different from the people locked up in the mental asylum across the street - he certainly didn't consider himself meritorious in the way some folks consider themselves. This is true for everything else, including future AGI.
Basic income will only come after a lot of suffering and fighting for what is moral and just. See this very short and amazing statistical reality about our society, considering this is possible.. does anyone think basic income will come without a fight?
medium.com/@rares_mircea_82/even-if-you-were-to-spend-a-million-dollars-a-day-you-would-still-have-to-wait-2-736-years-to-go-c70888766d
or Universal poverty
DSAK55 agreed. Specially with the new tax breaks the rich got. That only means the rich keep getting richer and the working class down graded!!
We already have it in Aus its called the doll
Shane T Dole
What is the physical grid made from?
A lot of questions still unanswered, but it is still very interesting. Admittedly the main reason I clicked was because it reminded me of Wall-E lol.
This is like an automated Minecraft farm with minecarts
as a veteran of Factorio I feel like I should be in charge of this facility..
lol no.
This same concept could apply to modular rental apartments. Installing and removing old units as well as maintenance can all be done with robots on rail systems.
This is simply beautiful. Yeah, I'm an engineer.
Song is "Anywhere But Here" by Only Emily.
Also RIP jobs. Basic income when?
Turns out they’re not so good at not burning the whole warehouse down though!
A quick google of Ocala warehouse fire ANDOVER will explain a bit better. ... oops. Maybe not the future just yet.
I don't even know if they fill up the crates or they take fron them?
If they fill them who takes them away i they take from them who and how replenishes them .
How much time to complete a cycle of a buy? How much cost the ibfrastrututure
"Is this the Future of Retail?"
No, actually. It's the Present. This is happening right now, you can go and see it.
This is not the norm but will probably be the norm in the future. Most warehouses still require people to sort out and organise the orders.
Highly unlikely to form future warehouse needs. Ocado doesn't sell or own product. It's just a fulfilment agent. Most warehouses have to hold significant stocks to either fulfil internet or retail operations, or both, so space is the key to efficiency and this system simply doesn't meet those requirements taking up massive swathes of area that looks unoccupied in many places. You store vertically, not horizontally, to maximise space use. And pack bin storage to the brim not loosely as these are. A fulfilment agent NOT a retail warehousing or internet warehousing operation.
Why would someone do an inside video if they don't explain the process at all? Goods come this way, robots do this and this, order goes that way etc etc
i've come to the conclusion that all these "insider" channels are pretty shit
@@0xjrr its cgi
This factory actually burnt down due to an electrical fire. I live near it and everyone had to be moved out of the houses nearby because of the toxic smoke
Does anyone know what it mean controlled by an Air Trsffic Control system? I am a retiring Air Traffic Controller and very curious. Thanks