Behind the scenes of the robots packing your shopping | The Gadget Show 

That CEO of Ocado looks like a holqost victim

@@nessie1668 what is that spelling....

@@DowzerWTP72 Sound it out child

@@DowzerWTP72 Doesn't take a grown up to tell another "grown up" how to read. Lmao you're so slow when it comes to picking up cues you'd rather not pass go on a green light unless it showed the word "Go" 🤣

watching this on my AI-phone

human heads are stored in the grid apprently

you sure have a sharp eye

I always think automated delivery is possible late at night with not man ycars on the road - there could be a hub that monitors the cars for any issues. Phantom auto is a company in the US that is doing it this way.

@@nikosv8166 combine autonomous vehicles with drones and it could be accomplished fairly easily, you have an autonomous truck packed with the groceries and a couple drones inside of it, the truck serves as a sort of "motherbase" for the drones to move them closer to their objective and deploy them to automatically deliver all the products, a couple of years ago amazon was toying with a similar idea but using blimps instead of trucks

Not for long buddy. #learntocodw

@@thierrylariviere988?????

Probobly cheaper to have robots do your work instead

Sounds like Publix!

@@michaelhorn4540 and you had no problems during covid or no injuries, no callouts, no pending compensation issues, no pending discrimination lawsuits in the works. Computers are coming full bore to the businesses that want to stay competitive.

Hi, what course i can do for work in this industry? Please can y help me with information

3:56 Great job did you lose all the screws ?

@@conradknightsocksknight1590 😂🤣

@@paulodias2504 do your research amongst Ocado and apply direct to the depot you’d like to work at, not every Ocado depot is fully automated like this one. I work for Ocado and it’s semi automated where I am. However I’m a driver, best thing if you don’t have qualifications in a sector would be transfer from within the company

egon2875 I made potentially one of the white totes 🤣

You're absolutely right

The likely scenario : 3 people become unemployed while the 4th is emphysema and working 80 hors a week

@@nkau7788 Maybe have to pass a maximum number of hours any one person can work in a week.

An algorithm is AI if it mimics human behaviour, doesn't have to be anything fancy. AI doesn't have to be Machine Learning.

Someone said to me, if you can’t replace the word AI with advanced statistics then it shouldn’t have been the word AI. But which stock to be ordered when, where it should be placed, all the movement of the bots in the grid is mainly driven by machine learning. It won’t always be right. Sometimes they will over order ketchup and place it in a place in the grid that isn’t the best place for that day. But your right, lots of it is normal software. Like 1% of the time the grid robots don’t just go ‘actually I’m going to go 100 Mph as that would be quicker’ (imagine if they did give it speed free reign?? Like it worked out the fastest speeds it could do accepting some damage/missed items?!?)

I agree with your observation of predictability within the fence of the fulfillment center and the consequential deployment of deterministic algorithms therein. AI may enter the robotic realm because of the variables obedient to the outside of the fulfillment center. Example s are: stock inventory level of fast versus slow moving items wrt to the rational choice model algorithms, which may a function of highly volatile probabilistic variables such as demographics, weather, holidays, price, coupons, rebates, mileage, Amazon substitutes and so on. Then there are last mile uncertainties like Mean Time Between Delivery Expiration on fresh or frozen items, traffic delays, weather delays and so on. And there may be a spot price vicissitude of commodity or seasonal items. They all compound in form of AI on the top of preferably deterministic and predictive algorithms driving robotic behavior

NO need to be overly logical about. AI is the word people use for complicated computer controlled 'things' thats it - live with it.

He literally said they use “machine learning” models several times.

It increases the unemployment .It is too bad for developing and poor countries population.

Frees people from mundane repetitive jobs, allowing them to pursue more fulfilling careers both for them and society.

That's what the luddites said about weaving machines!

it is done that way, its not one to one, its filled and picked based on order needed to be filled. and the conveyor may go by 40 pickers but only stop at like 10 of them. if no orders were changed between placing and picking then the basket is scheduled to be empty at the end of the picking conveyor.

Tom Scott said that his video is still better than yours

The totes tht come dwn with say, cornflakes will stay there if all 3 shopping totes need it.. it doesnt cone dwn for one tote at a time

the food is swapped cause the item you bought is now out of stock i think

now we just need non fossil fuel deliveries and I will use them

@@Leopold5100 One efficient Ocado van is far more eco-friendly than the dozens of shoppers in gas cars they replace. Besides, Ocado has already worked to replace the fossil fuel vans that are left with electric and hydrogen vans.

Either that, or get a McJob.

robots need maintenance... but the world does not need warehouse shelf pickers

Dude, no offense, you look 30 to 40, by the time it becomes so severe that jobs are being replaced at a massive scale you will be in a senior home, don't worry.

I work in factory maintenance and also with robots. Don't worry, robots are not going to replace people in ages 😃

mean time, get the job in warehouse. It is good for fitness, yeah.

The bags are recycled after every use its a great system

Only single use plastic bags. Bags are collected each delivery.

@Paulo Motta link? i could take those bags and use them as fertilizer in my garden then?

Now you know why they dont have plastic bags in human grocery stores, because the machines insisted they get them instead.

Plastic bags were not taken out of grocery stores because they were bad, they were needed by the robots or they were going to go on strike.

Sounds about right

With you name exposed, well you will be fired...!

@@michiganfox9069 lol no

@@lancefisher8358 Not you but Paul...we need to be very careful with social media about what we say...Greetings from Michigan.

@@michiganfox9069 bads new for you I'm still at ocado! Can say whatever I want really especially when it's the truth! Greetings from London.

That same tote will make the rounds to Dozens of human pickers. and has an even chance to be emptied by the time all the orders are filled. Even that is Computer calculated. when the loaders fill a tote they may fill it just 40% full because the computer has calculated that it will pull that tote 6 hours from now to fulfill THAT many orders.

I watche an ignorant POS at walmart pick up one small box, walk 40 feet put on shelf and then repeat. They just don't realize what is coming.

Lol, dont underestimate the criminal mind, they can still steal product.

oh god, reduced theft is "best part" no covid social distancing no call outs no discrimination suits no pay disputes no workmans comp customer satisfaction through the roof. and on and on

lol AI right now is bullshit like it was in the late 80s. i'm thinking what you're describing 100 to 300 years away. you won't be around probably.

On the other hand, If we don't build them fire escapes then we can just burn the robots that get ideas above their station, thus preventing the bobocalypse in the first place.

Yea, was thinking also: AI or algorithm. But nvm - most of what ive seen of "AI" is algorithm anyway. They call it "AI" because its cool and may sells better.

Yeah you're definitely the death of humanity aren't you ?

@@67tr876 I take it you are not aware that there are robots being used to make you tube comments?

Of course they are, Robots are taking over and they insisted.

its all based on feelings. science, no. feelings, yes.

@@trueanarchy2543 One of the fears of AI is that bias will be built in. So would women build in "feelings" that ultimately AI would deem a drag on the system and its machine learning would remove said "feelings"

They will have done years of research and simulation to arrive at this solution. You don’t just build a multi million pound robotic packing system by accident. The people with the brain to build this will have thought about it. Amazon have been moving entire racks of products around on robots for years, it must be the most efficient way or they wouldn’t do it this way

@@PetesShredder that's true. But I think that the new robot system SQUID is the first autonomous warehouse robot with 3-dimensional movement capabilities Mounted directly on a standard pallet rack, SQUID can pick from any location, with no difference if it's on the floor or 20m/60ft high. Let me know what you think about it

And then think of all the energy used to get it to your local supermarket, unbox it, put it in the correct part of the store, and then you driving/walking to that store, grabbing it, putting it in your trolley, getting it out of the trolley again to have it scanned at the counter, putting it back in again... etc. And don't forget about all the spillage that process adds due to mistakes, but also having to have every item in every store instead of one central location. Or the time spent making the shelves look good ("mirroring"), cleaning the store because customers are messy, etc. I agree there is a ton of room for efficiency improvement, but I think it is already a lot more efficient than the "old" process :)

now if only they could be taught to pick my nose.

@@armastat How clueless would one have to be to think that is even funny? Im guessing "dweeb" is not alien to your ears.

D Hickery. I was just thinking about prefabs last night and how they could build in so many tweeks for all the idiotic nuances that women would want. With prefab will come mass unemployment and here we have open borders.

I was going to answer your comment on my comment with joy, compassion and humor. but then I see your rather heartless comment to the original comment and decided your not worth it, sorry, maybe next time.

yes, it appears that's the case. i'm like you I thought the bots were grabbing just one item and collecting them, but no, it appears from what they said the bot is grabbing the entire bin (maybe 2) and dropping them off at a picking location so the bags can be made from a person grabbing one from the bin and then the entire bin is returned. From what he said the machine still can't accurately pick all the items (like produce) out of the bins and into the bags accurately enough. in summary: the bots are saving human workers the time of walking down aisles to grab one item from a bin with many of that item. instead the bots are bringing the entire bin (with many of the same item) to the human worker, the worker grabs the one item, and the bot brings the bin back to the "shelf."

Who said the crate goes back and forth each time? that crate gets filled with say 10 items BEFORE going to storage (that number determined by the AI), then a robot picks it from storage and puts in on a conveyor that goes to 40 pickers, but only stops at 10 of them, because that was how many orders that were placed to be fulfilled at that time.

@@armastat I didn't see where it says it queues up the orders before picking up the crate. But that doesn't make sense cause the first guy that ordered would be waiting too long. I did clearly see them picking up the entire crate so one station can pick up one item then move the entire crate back.

@@palmespilates1294 You didn't SEE a lot of things. It would be an hour long video if they showed everything. What I am telling you is What I KNOW of how they work. I am not sure of how you reached ur conclusion about 1st guy waiting too long. Explaining exactly how it works requires pages of text but to make it real simple. the AI selects orders to be filled based on the time ordered and distance to be delivered (far distances get filled earlier than short distances so they will be delivered on time). It then orders the grid to pick the items for those orders and then sends the crates to the picking stations where those orders will be filled. (If multiple orders require the same item that crate is routed to each of those stations BEFORE being sent back to the grid.) Optionally (depending on if its efficient or not, which depends on 20 other variables) the system may also PRELOAD crates (at the front end) with the exact number of items required for orders it knows will be filled at a certain time of the day so as to have an empty crate at the end of the order picking line (the Back end). This cuts down on need for returning a good portion of crates at all.

@@palmespilates1294 Part of your confusion may be that you are assuming that orders are filled the moment the order is placed, this is NOT the case. They are scheduled ahead of time. it is most simplest terms you either ask for something to be delivered at a particular time (usually a 2 hour block) and you pick that time from those AVAILABLE (previous orders may have filled up certain time blocks, like that guy who ordered first). So there is no "I placed my order first" situation. All orders for a certain time block go out at the SAME time. Ordering 4 days ahead of time (for time block 2pm lets say) and ordering 8 hours ahead of time for the same block (only if its not full) makes no difference in how the orders are handled. orders are filled based on delivery time NOT ordered time. Now in those cases where people are ALLOWED to ask for 'As soon as possible' All the system will do is advise the person What the next earliest AVAILABLE time block is, it will not preempt other peoples orders (after all they ordered first for that time block). So in effect it is Still scheduled as I explained above. Functionally as far as the system is concerned - there is really no difference.

It is used in BOTH situations.

Ocado Pay (£) customers to return there plastic bags when the delivery driver turns up with there next shop.(But not at the moment during the pandemic ) When the driver returns to the CFC he collects all the bags up after the delivery run and sends it to the plastic bag machine in the CFC. A operator puts plastic bags in to the machine. The plastic bags are put though a process to then go to a outside UK manufacturer to make new recycled plastic bags. Hope this Helps :) I've put a link below to the Ocado website that explains better! www.ocado.com/content/bag-recycling-process-148928

So the plastic bags become single use before it goes into energy intensive recycling ? What a waste when in normal situations it can be used 4-5 times and then used as bin liner in peoples kitchens.

Calm down Jasmine

Nonsense. global IQs have hit the low 80s at precisely the time we need millions of bag packers. It all worked out nicely.

@@philliphartman2381 IQ doesn't matter that much, it's which countries have the highest IQs to be ahead. being ahead gives you a good life. i challenge you to sort nations by average IQ and you'll notice which countries have the highest IQs, then look at their per capita income/GDP. and yes the work has already been done. all the nations are ranked by average IQ.

get a life

They're biodegradeable, and the customers can return them to be reused for a 10p refund per bag!

Not true, How could a robot use an all wrincle up plastic bag ? Instead of write disinformation, go to school, get a girlfriend and live your life in peace. Shalom

Did you notice the scale of the storage and how many items are being stored? It's the footprint required of this top down storage system vs the traditional number of staff/footprint/access routes to go round and pick items. Ultimately, if they do not do this, they will be overtaken by competitors.

@@Gr33nMamba just seems the last bit could have been automated Company I live near makes the robots ( tharsus ) they aren’t cheap the robots

You are replacing 100s or even thousands of baggers, managers, janitors, and real estate with a single warehouse staffed with just a few baggers, and they don't have to wait around for customers. Definitely worth it for the business.

the robot would struggle if you ordered a pineapple, a frozen turkey and a bag of grapes

@@YouzACoopa It wouldn't understand what meal you were making.

you will became a human robot. No time to think about yoourself, only listening to a computer. It would calculate how fast you have to work and it will be faster every day.

Who's "jobs"?

He might not have known about it. I was look for info on Ocado but this video wasn't recommended to me until a fortnight later.

That's like everything in the U.K. Economics as a zero-sum game; which tends to make it a zero-sum game. Compare Germany.

It's very good pay and a very good company to work for yes it's fast paced and physically challenging but the rewards are well worth it

FACTOS

The AI is the scheduling and logistics that determine which robot is best to pick which item from the grid without crashing into or getting in the way of another robot doing the same. You don't have a clue what you're talking about.

@@sleepcrime No he doesn't have a clue. Scheduling is the primary job of the AI.it schedules everything from ordering items to come to the WH, the number in each tote, the pulling time of the tote, the orders to be filled at what time (based on the distance to its final destination), the stopping of tote at needed stations, the scheduling of trucks and the deliveries that go into each one. and so on. on the other hand the picking robot is the stupidest of all the AI in the loop.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

When the driver has 2 mins to drop it, then that’s what will happen.