UK online supermarket Ocado is rolling out a humanoid robot that helps engineers fix faults in its automated warehouses. The robot, ARMAR-6, has a human-like torso and hands that grip, atop a large wheeled base to help it move through the factory. The ambition is that the robot will be able to decide what the technician's intentions are and chip-in as appropriate at the right point in time," said Graham Deacon, the robotics research team leader at Ocado Technology. In an interview with BBC News, CEO of Ocado, David Green, said he was inspired by his own experience working at Amazon when robots were first introduced there. The group is also developing packing robots that can safely grip a wide range of products, from bottles of bleach to eggs.
UK online supermarket Ocado is rolling out a humanoid robot that helps engineers fix faults in its automated warehouses. The robot, ARMAR-6, has a human-like torso and hands that grip, atop a large wheeled base to help it move through the factory. In an interview with BBC News, CEO of Ocado, David Green, said he was inspired by his own experience working at Amazon when robots were first introduced there. The group is also developing packing robots that can safely grip a wide range of products, from bottles of bleach to eggs.