Inside Ocado's Robot-Run Grocery Warehouse

Tom Scott · Explainer · 5 min · 2021 · YouTube title: How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?

Why it's here

Cited in automation and robotics threads as the example of a warehouse built robot-first.

What it covers

Tom Scott tours Ocado's automated grocery warehouse, where thousands of robots move boxes on a grid called the Hive, and asks whether they are individual robots or a hive mind.