Online grocery delivery firm Ocado is investing significant resources in technology to automate its warehouses with robotics. The company has been testing robots at a warehouse near San Francisco for the past year, and it plans to expand that program across all of its U.S. stores by 2020. The robotics systems are being marketed worldwide by the company under the brand "Ocado Solutions", and the company is hiring additional software engineers and developers to improve the technology further. A shortage of drivers in the south-east meant it was forced to increase pay last year, which pushed up annual distribution and administrative costs by 15.7%. It has signed partnership deals with a number of companies worldwide and is in active discussion with others.
Online grocery delivery firm Ocado is investing significant resources in technology to automate its warehouses with robotics. The company has been testing robots at a warehouse near San Francisco for the past year, and it plans to expand that program across all of its U.S. stores by 2020. The robotics systems are being marketed worldwide by the company under the brand "Ocado Solutions", and the company is hiring additional software engineers and developers to improve the technology further. It has signed partnership deals with a number of companies worldwide and is in active discussion with others.