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Ocado 500 Series bot
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CommercialUnited KingdomFully autonomous

Ocado Group · working robot

Ocado 500 Series bot

An in-house redesigned grid robot with modular, swappable parts, completed in early 2020.

Price
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Height
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Weight
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Payload
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Speed
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Battery
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Why it matters

Ocado 500 Series bot is on the market today.

Real-world use

Used across Ocado Smart Platform sites, whose partners include Kroger (US), Sobeys (Canada), Coles (Australia) and Casino (France).

Timeline

First shown
2020
Released
2020
Design completed early 2020

Maker

Ocado GroupCompany · founded 2000 · Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Public attention

How much public attention Ocado 500 Series bot gets, from open data.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • No recent press stories listed yet
  • 1 reported deployment

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What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Movement
Wheeled base
How it runs
Fully autonomous. It moves around the storage grid fetching crates entirely under the control of Ocado's software.
Other details
Designed and prototyped in-house with a modular design so parts can be swapped and upgraded; works on the Ocado grid ('Hive')

Lineage

Every Ocado Group machine in order.

  1. Ocado 400 Series botOcado 400 Series bot2014Retired
  2. Ocado 500 Series botOcado 500 Series bot2020Commercial
  3. Ocado 600 Series botOcado 600 Series bot2022Commercial

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Made, sold and where

Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.

Price
Not published
How to get one
No official buying page found
Where it is sold or used
Ocado Group, United Kingdom
Customers and pilots
Ocado Smart Platform partners including Kroger, Sobeys, Coles and Casino

Where it works

1 reported deployment.

Map
  • Deployed

    Kroger · Kroger Customer Fulfillment Center, Monroe · Monroe · since 2021-04 · 1,000 units

    Kroger's first Ocado-powered fulfilment centre in Monroe, Ohio runs about 1,000 grid robots picking grocery orders. About 1,000 Ocado bots (bot generation not stated) TechCrunch

Sources

Figures come from the maker. Every link below backs something on this page.

Ocado Group Engineering the future: the evolution of Ocado's fulfilment robots Ocado Group Engineering the future: the evolution of Ocado’s fulfilment robots ocadogroup.com Ocado 500 Series bot: how it is operated

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