Ocado Group · working robot
Ocado 400 Series bot
An early Ocado grid robot that runs on rails on top of a dense storage grid, lifting crates out and bringing them to pick stations. Testing began in 2014 at Welwyn Garden City.
- 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
A retired machine from Ocado Group.
Real-world use
Ocado's own UK operations
Maker
Ocado GroupCompany · founded 2000 · Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United KingdomPublic attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current machines.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. The 400 Series introduced a grid-based automated system whose bots retrieve totes and deliver them to picking stations.
- Actuators & motors
- Wheeled bots running on top of a dense storage grid, lifting totes from stacks below.
- AI & software
- Swarm control so bots work together to deliver totes to pick stations and robotic arms.
- Other details
- Replaced conveyor-and-crane designs; succeeded by the modular 500 Series (2020) and the lighter, 3D-printed 600 Series.
Lineage
Every Ocado Group machine in order.
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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
- Built
- Production numbers not given
- Sold or delivered
- Used in Ocado Customer Fulfilment Centres (not sold separately)
- Where it is sold or used
- Ocado Group, Hatfield, UK; prototypes tested at Welwyn Garden City from 2014
- Customers and pilots
- Ocado's own UK operations
News
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- Ocado charts its bot generations
Ocado described how testing at Welwyn Garden City in 2014 led to the 400 Series Bot entering production, followed by the 500 and 600 Series.
Ocado Group
Sources
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