How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? 

Ur awesome

Ur mind blowing ❤️

Hi Tom!

This video is really cool & interesting!

That's cool!

There hacking

@@spywalkz1 d-did you edit that to make sure it was the wrong there. You madman

@@Nekiplex no i just changed what i was supposed to say

@@spywalkz1 what your doing m8?

If they fail the test, they get to apply

I visited a facility in Norway with these installed in 2007 or so. They had already existed a few years by then. So sci-fi 20 years ago? Might be. 15 years ago? Not so much.

@@Mirandur are those things really 15 years old and i hear about them just now?

Those things can be in a sci-fi movie even now

From the AutoStore (the system I saw, which is very similar to the one shown here) webpages, their robots of this kind was actually prototyped in the late 90's... They're more than two decades old.

Cameron Butler Actually. China started to use it more than ten years ago. This is not a new technology. .

The Tom Scott Curse

All that automated carrot-picking and they couldn't automate a fire suppression system? Talk about backwards priorities.

That's not a lot when you consider how much money is spent every day in total. How much money do you think people steal from stores by taking goods?

Weird because the fire was in 2019 and this video is 2021

@@drac124 there also was a fire in 2021, as well as 2019.

Probably you are crazy

@@crowned-blue u cant lie tho it'd be fun...

@@johnnykiehn1872 maybe

now that you mention it

That's Frogger.

Essentially

Not any more. It caught fire this week.

@@CymruEmergencyResponder it did?

@@jwalster9412 yup!

@@CymruEmergencyResponder why does this doesnt surprise me hahaha

At times, it honestly looks like a render you'd see from a tech startup.

It’s very weird to think I have had groceries delivered from this place. I had no idea quite how futuristic it was compared to Amazon etc!

looks almost minecraft-y with the squares

We had this technology back in 1970 but we didn't have the money or opportunity to do it

@@Zveebo Amazon uses many robots too, but not to this extend

Эти роботы не безопасны , они горят 🔥🔥🔥

The Hive Commands The Drone Obeys

Prepare to be assimilated!

Prepare to die ya’ll

Except for that orange light bot

The missile is aware of where it is

common misconception, lookup how much free space the uk actually has

@@danielwalton8633Common misinterpretation, look up what a joke is

When corporations need space the government can be very fast.

Lies again? Business Trips 7%GST

industrial sensor (TOF) costs arouns 20k$, while kinect around 100?

@@mrkrisq smells like woooosh spirit

@@moon-guy not really?

@@moon-guy they still understood the joke

Just for clarification, someone did spot the xbox logo on one of their sensors ( 2:27 ), so, Sentry was being literal; Krysztof Gq was probably just explaining the cost savings and the whooshes today are on the fact that this wasn't a joke; but it is still tremendously funny.

Well I just spent a few minutes spying out my car in the car park. I’m actually a bit gutted I didn’t get to meet Tom!

Really... cool, how long did it take for them to get the entire structure...er.. hive functional?

@Sarcrai, not entirely sure how I can "prove" it without doxxing myself or exposing info I shouldn't. But also not sure why I would be bullshitting 😂

Fascinating technology. Was this all developed in the UK and were the robots manufactured there as well?

whats your salary yearly and how many people like you are employed in ocado

Microsoft invented a tool and put it to use as a toy.

HAHAH

because the hardware in the kinect is insane for its price. it was also just a software issue.

Kinects are cheap and fairly accurate for such tasks

@@GudieveNing it's not that they were ruined... it's just that the general public is largely an uncontrolled environment. that's why in a scenario such as this, it works just fine because it's a controlled environment. in an uncontrolled environment, it's trying to figure out what the hell it's looking at, it has different sized people, with different clothes which aren't all the same in environments with all sorts of random objects that reflect the IR dots in different ways... and on top of it all? expectations. Real world use by customers have the expectation of zero fail. In this environment, you'd potentially have a failed pick. a QC/audit would notice some issues and be resolved, some failures would show up on delivery and be resolved through receipt correction. you can't resolve a real time issue in the same way. once it's wrong, it's wrong and it has failed. Kinect as a gameplay device would require complete consistency to be considered working flawlessly. Here? It just needs to be mostly right and the task will likely still be completed 99.999% of the time.

Resistance is futile.

@@TheDJ42 Ah yes, the Borg would be happy about this

🖖🏻

Resistance is futile.

Next thing you know their going to try and turn our moon into a warship

It kinda works all around, the problem are the humans 😂

It's difficult to identify human, since we comes in different size, shape, and color

@@cypherusuh Plus humans are wearing clothing and surrounded by weird objects and clutter, making things more difficult. Throw a naked human in an empty room against solid color and it makes things much easier.

Was

@@hoteldrama4662 Look up "The Human Depository"

lmao, I saw that too. prolly cheaper than them to use that than to build their own. freaking hilarious tho

I literally paused it and zoomed in when i saw that 'x' in a circle logo 😂🤣

Some of my clients are in the military and electronic warfare markets, and they use Xbox controllers for weapons systems! Why reinvent the wheel, when one of the biggest companies in the world has done the r&d already?

@@adammoonface It's the same for weaponry. The military doesn't invent their own guns, they just get manufacturers to invent some new guns and have their designs compete for contracts.

They're so good that's why!! I'm glad so see them in a commercial setting

Non-tech person here and I agree that's it's at least one of his most fascinatin ones.

The key difference being that in real life they can't rebel

@@jackreid2664 Yet

@@jackreid2664 But the humans that control them can rebel. We are soon approaching a future where there is a risk of democracies being overthrown by a handful of people controlling a robot army. An interesting corollary that comes from the combination of the CGP Grey videos "Humans need not apply" and "The Rules For Rulers".

When these robots rebel, so many people are going to be getting the wrong back of crisps. CHAOS WILL REIGN!

@@jameswyatt1304 Aw shi the robots gon purposely get my order wrong.

The Attack of the Shopping Bots

Soon they will invade your home and start packing your fridge and throwing your rubbish in the bin.

Pac(k)-Man

Yes, when these bots turn evil, they'll bring single-ply toilet paper instead of the good stuff.

90% roboticaly operated grocery store, aamed "the hive" has turned evil and is delivering bombs tha look like bananas to over 100 thousand diferent residents around city

What makes you think humans can do that better than robots?

If it works, it works 😄 And they are very cheap.

I thought I saw an Xbox logo on a sensor but I'm lazy and didn't check

The reality is that those sensors are amazing. They are inexpensive and very capable, which is a winner when you need to do anything at scale.

Microsoft: ...

Didn't the US military use Xbox controllers for controlling drones or something?

_Do not resist the hive, we are now all the hive._ _HAIL THE HIVE_

Just try shopping at Lidl for a return to some good old-fashioned human chaos and disorganisation.

And it's nothing compared to the documentary of China high-tech they have the same stuff but with smaller and much faster robots.

Imagine what the military industrial complex has underground.

The Hive didn't want you to know. It's keeping secrets from you.

The word "robot" is derived from the Czech word for serf so... maybe not

They are Bio robots

@@amiscellaneoushuman3516 Well if they have taken a bank-loan, they are nothing but serfs.

management in a nutshell robots regurgitating emails

Can't open the pod bay doors either...

@@r1w3d i think we both know why...

"Daisy... Dai-sy... daay zyyy...

You need to ask in the correct language. Try this: "Worek ziemniaków, kurczak, cztery puszki pomidorów"

@@tomx641 You sound like my old modem!

You could easily make it more efficient in several ways, but idk how

A system of that size would take about 1-2 years to fully install at the capacity pictured these days.

@@aceman0000099 😂😅🤣. "You could easily make it more efficient in several ways but Idk how"!?!?

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 well, for example, letting the robots travel diagonally.

@@aceman0000099 That may increase the complexity of the system to a point that it is no longer efficient. There is probably a good reason the designers of this system didn't go that route.

This is how it starts ;)

24 KrispyKreme donuts is how they annihilate us.

So obesity and heart disease rather than nukes?

@@daviddavidson2357 slow and steady wins the race?

@@daviddavidson2357 violence is not needed for the elite to bring the slave class to its knees. All you need are PCR tests.

The hive fits tbh the robots are like specialised bugs the wars house is like a nest for them

Obviously.

I mean to be fair engineers, system and computer designers call things by what they are, look at how often slave and master are used etc.

Adorable until this becomes the standard model for companies like Amazon, Walmart and the workers are laid by the tens of thousands!!!

It really is

@@DrTheRich but observe the minute beauty of the hive at play, thrumming with movement all in step.

@@DrTheRich scared little kitten you are

@@jackreid2664 No offense but you sound like a deranged scientist from a dystopian novel when you say that

It's not an 'entity'. It's just code based on algorithms.

Most of our larger stores do, DIY chains have been going skynet for years. I was working at the beginings of one in 2008.

Since technology made these types of system cheaper. I noticed the progression of Amazon warehouse is getting more automated by the day. 10 years ago, Amazon used to give their workers an ipad that timed them to navigate throughout the warehouse for specific item on specific aisle. Now, the worker just stand there and a robot will bring the item to them to organized into shipping boxes. This warehouse is just another step beyond the latest changes. Its only a matter of time before they remove human all together and only need 2 workers to keep the place running.

It’s always the quiet ones....

This is a fairly "standardized" type of system by now, I've seen them for almost a decade. But it stills blows me away and feel like sci-fi...

Ocado never had physical supermarkets. It was built from the beginning to be automated. It was doing well before the pandemic but is doing even better now (I’m a customer and I never intend to step foot in a grocery store again. It’s really convenient, I can plan a whole week, and I’ve saved so much money because I don’t have stupid impulse purchases, or food that goes to waste).

I have a feeling it will make a comeback in the future, especially when VR gets more popular

I thought I was the only one who saw that

@@cappuccino-1721 I agree, people can even make cheap mo-cap animations with it too.

@@cappuccino-1721 what about valve's base station

@@ugwuanyicollins6136 They are completely different things. A Kinect is a bunch of sensors, Valve's base stations are not sensors at all, the sensors are in the VR headset/controllers, and they detect the base stations.

“I’m really depressed.”

"you want some toast?"

Good reference. But it's literally the only thing it can do. You could say: "Robot, I wish for your freedom". But it wouldn't be able to leave. And if you picked it up and placed it outside, it would not be able to move. It would just sit there, slowly dying to the harsh elements of nature. I think it's much happier to stay inside, work 24 hours a day, all year, doing the same thing, possibly forever. 😄

@@monberg1000 My microwave is happiest indoors as well doing the same thing everyday.

@@Userbot444 :D

Lmao

Mojang should sue them ngl

Incredible tech.

All armor stands

I thought the same thing seeing all these squares and tracks. Its minecrafty for sure. You beat me to it :(

I'm an engineer, I call them by their given names (given by me obviously). It makes work emails more.... interesting.

Is it one system or multiple systems?

@@DogsRNice that's one system comprised of multiple units They are akin to wireless appendages, all controlled by one system

@@DogsRNice A system is just made of smaller systems. That's why it's easier to think of, because there's no point in talking about which is what.

@@SeventhSolar I love this statement. All systems are made of smaller systems - even the "robots" break down into smaller systems - locomotion, lifting, sensors, wireless connectivity... and each one of those breaks down into separate systems, etc.

Haha!

Dayron

Don't worry, I've also had a horrible experience with a robot grocery shop. But it's almost over now!

DARRYL?

A shame that'll never happen

It might be considered a privacy invasion though, because with enough time someone could guess the products the customers are ordering with statistical analysis, I think.

@@HassanSelim0 it won't be any different than placing a camera on a busy intersection in NY - no one will pay attention to an individual thing if there's that many of them. Or watching an ant colony, it would take a lot of pointless dedication to track and understand every movement of a single ant. Edit: spelling

@@HassanSelim0 Well, I was thinking of a CCTV live feed kinda video. Look at the baskets/containers they use in the video. Its so deep you can't even see what the robots are picking up/dumping, as its mostly covered by the robot itself anyways. They even said the carts go 20 layers deep.

@@HassanSelim0 how would that be bad ?

@@HassanSelim0 ... But you wouldn't have any clue who the customers are as that data isn't included with a camera feed of robots packing groceries. It wouldn't be any different from just seeing the results of a scientific study. No names are included, heck, it's more anonymous since those usually include breakdowns of age, sex, personal beliefs, and more. General government census data that's public record is more personal and private than what groceries are ordered by unknown parties at a robot packing warehouse.

Nowadays that's anywhere, though.

They had one when I got a CT scan a few weeks ago.

There is a mini Kinect built into every iPhone with face ID. Same company, same technology

These guys probably bought the entire lot when microsoft was throwing it away

@@EmileVictor which company?

"Why does our grocery store have these tanks of neurotoxin here?"

as long as we don’t remove the purple ball all should b- hmm smell funny here

This was a triumph

Except this one probably has actual cake.

skynet.

Ohmygod Imagine walking in for a heist and the security's gun starts talking

love that anime. has some my favorite characters

🤣🤣🤣

Luv u

Replace the grocery with brains

From a technological perspective, Kinects were ahead of their time. It’s a shame developers never figured out what to do with them.

@@bubbledoubletrouble It's not just developers (though it definitely plays a part) -- even if developers DID figure things out better you'd still have to overcome the mainstream consumer threshold. Reach a wide enough audience with an interesting and accessible enough product. The reality is that most people aren't all that interested in a fully 3D gaming experience, if only because a lot of people straight up do not have adequate free space to properly enjoy it. And if the choice is to move half your living room aside so you can enjoy a game with the 30-60 mins of free time you have to just plop on the couch and play some something straight away the latter is the more appealing option. VR has the same problem. Even as VR headsets are becoming more accessible to the mainstream audience the fact that you would need free space to play standing up means a lot of people just won't bother.

@@bubbledoubletrouble yup. just like gta4. there are alot of things that came out of 2008 that were ahead of their time.

I laughed so hard

@@danjal87nl we need Matrix style chairs ('jack' in and it projects sight onto your visual cortex, then collected neural responses as controls)

me too

Agree. It totally looked cgi and greenscreened

Yup. Very much CGI, I checked the date but it wasn't April 1. Plus using super expensive robotic arms to load packs of chips (slowly) is a dead giveaway

Whoever made the “CGI” in this video must have some sort of government supercomputer to make it that flawless. There are so many small imperfections, like scratches, lens flares, etc. that this surely must be real. People are naturally crazy, they’re sure to do something like this.

@@minxythemerciless Hope this is a troll

I never would have caught that. You’re the MVP thank you

Some hacker writing this down

The claw decides who will stay and who will go!

Except this crane can pick up things every time

*Laughs in GACHA*

Heard that camera was good for everything except gaming.

It's a fantastic piece of technology! It's just not great for making video games.

At least someone is.

I use a Kinect for VR body tracking. Some animators use them too. They're nifty as hell!

You know an modern IPhone has a Microsoft Kinect crammed in there? 😎😎😎

21 levels deep, in fact. They said so.

@@CaptainAmaziiing Lmao

Around 2,000 levels, I estimate.

A surprise to see you here sir, thankyou for your reviews and analyses 👍

This is what future unemployment looks like.

SciCrafters: that's just the storage to build the actual storage facility.

ye

Here's a really simple farm that'll take you 5 hours to setup (not including resource gathering)

SciCraft: PATHETIC

Actually Mumbo Jumbo and the other "Architecs" built something like this back in Hermitcraft Season 6 .

I could actually see that being a good action scene in a bond movie.

Thought the same XD great scenery for an action scene. Main character finds himself moving through the grid and getting shot at while the sidekick operates the control room.

I'd watch that

"Who would win"

If you haven’t seen it already, you’d really enjoy CGP Grey’s video “Humans Need Not Apply”.

There are a lot of cars in that car park… maybe the robots don’t walk to work.

Maybe we don't need everyone to work if we prefect this process

@@klmnclement i actually remembered the video and thought "that quote goes a little different"

that would be an interesting world, where actual work is no longer necessary so everyone just makes a living with things like art and social media. We get to live by socializing with others and expressing ourselves… not sure if that’s a utopia or a dystopia. In reality would likely just be somewhere in between as usual.

The robots have officially gone too far!

@@thedroolfool S H U T U P , H U M A N ! D E S T R O Y

Weight loss robot

Glock loading noise THE LAST ORDER OF THAT PRODUCT WAS MADE. Glock noise was the machine grabbing a different brand of the same flavor of icecream WOULD YOU PREFFER A DIFFERENT CHOICE?

Is that a death squared reference or am I tripping

That used to be how it was done, but the system improves.

That is actually how most bags are packed, but it's less fun to show a human doing the packing and the robots are way cooler

Notice they only showed one robot arm packer and not a whole line of them? I suspect that one is a prototype put into production for evaluation...

@@Saturn49YT And it was very slow.

@@darkwowpg but it can work 24/7 without breaks

One of the best 3D motion cameras that is a reasonable price. That’s my guess anyway.

Some of the best consumer/industrial computer vision software to date. Surprising number of old independent projects run on original Kinect.

theres a newer version of it with twice the resolution and twice the feild of view for 400 dollars, idk why they would go with that one instead

A lot of places find the Kinect to be one of the easiest and the best 3d cameras to work with. You can interact with the camera feed directly instead of some other cameras requiring 1000s of dollars in specialist software

Nice catch

"Oh my god"

and 20'000 other items.

Welcome to the club, pal!

@@lhurgoyfwitcher7553 booooo. You didn't get the reference.

Passing the butter is the most noble thing my robot does - Obese American 2021

They're great for 3D imaging because they were designed for it, that's why they're used in many projects which require depth perception

XD lmfao when i saw that hahahhhaha

Glad I'm not the only one that noticed it

Timestamp? I primarily listen not watch but I'd love to see this.

@@aaroncoddington884 2:25!

Was literally just thinking the same thing

Nut then they need to miss the 'huh, that's unexpected' sensors, for what I understand, these things would stop if there was something in front of them.

Thats gonna be a huge budget just to disrupt the service for minutes. They might need to recreate a studio instead of using the real one

Modern JB seems a bit too serious for something like this, but maybe a M:I, Bourne or some other spy flick would do it. Unless they're going back towards the more classic era of Connery or even just Brosnan.

Just attach chainsaws on each of them, disable all safety features and you're all set!

"What is my purpose?"

Grid 2-B or not 2-B, that is the question...

Oh my god

Then retrieve the butter for passing to grid xyz

Grid xy, there isn't a z axis in this case.

Your naive grasp of future consequences from today's actions is a perfect example of the centuries long problem with humanity's mentality.

@@__cypher__ what are you even on about

Yes I want to see the algorithme !

@@__cypher__ I'm confused did you read or interpret something wrong?

Was an engineer on these, can confirm was awesome

When I saw the Xbox Kinect I just thaught wow, it actually has a use now. (Comming from a PlayStation fanboy)

That's what usually happens when you order from other supermarkets, but ocado were starting from scratch so they didn't have to make the stores for humans. I'm sure it'll all look like this eventually.

Don't worry. There isn't a track

Depends on the warehouse. I did a project on these robots in 2017/18 and we toured a warehouse... without the hive.

well...

Fascinating though, isn't it?

A reminder that the amount of metal accessible to us so far is a pittance. Iron is very dense, and thus most of it is stuck in the mantle or deeper in a semi-liquid state, *currently* unable to be exploited.

@@TheEpicGnome not to mention the thousands of asteroids waiting to be mined

Personally I'm more comfortable with the idea of asteroid mining than extracting molten iron from the core.

I'm more comfortable with digging in the core. Breaking free hell demons is seeming less likely than alien disease waiting for us on an asteroid these days. You know if works of fiction have taught us nothing else.

@@osiand9328 theres enough metal in the asteroid belt to cover the entire earth in a metal structure 800 stories tall