Robot maker · registered
Ocado Group (Technology Solutions)
Scoped entry: covers only Ocado Group's robotics/physical-AI business — Ocado Smart Platform (CFC grid bots, robotic picking) and Ocado Intelligent Automation (collaborative mobile robotics). Excludes the Ocado Retail grocery JV and group-wide retail/financial signals.
Ocado designs and builds its own fulfillment robots: swarms of grid bots (latest 600 Series, five times lighter with over half its parts 3D-printed) traverse a 3D storage grid ('the Hive') coordinated by an AI air-traffic-control system, with On-Grid Robotic Pick arms using computer vision and machine learning to pick individual grocery items directly on the grid. The Ocado Smart Platform is sold as end-to-end robotic fulfillment to grocery partners including Kroger, Coles, Sobeys, and Aeon. Its Ocado Intelligent Automation arm (built around the 2023 acquisition of 6 River Systems) sells collaborative mobile robots and grid automation outside grocery. Founded 2000; current line is modern AI-native robotics (documented evolution, Boston Dynamics/Seegrid class).
Company overview
Identity and operating footprint
Robot models
Specifications remain vendor-claimed
600 Series Bot
- Five times lighter than the predecessor grid bot with more than half of its parts 3D-printed, enabling lighter grids that install in existing buildings in weeks rather than months
Grid robot that traverses the Hive storage grid retrieving grocery totes in Ocado Smart Platform CFCs
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Automated Frameload
- Automates loading of completed order totes into delivery frames at CFCs, driving down cost to serve and improving labor productivity
Robotic frame-loading system deployed alongside On-Grid Robotic Pick in Ocado CFCs
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On-Grid Robotic Pick
- Robotic arm installed on the fulfilment grid that packs bags with items deposited by grid bots; at full capacity can pick over 70% of an extensive online grocery range
AI-vision robotic picking arm operating directly on top of the CFC grid
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Deployment log
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Publicly announced rounds
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Investors undisclosed
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