Dr. Sam Blake, Team Lead Supply Chain and Data Science, Ocado Technology Being able to forecast demand accurately has been the lifeblood of retailers for years. In the world of groceries, where the freshness of goods and nuances in customer behaviour add complexity, it’s even more critical. Retailers face a…

Joris Slegers, Senior Product Manager, Simulation, Ocado Technology Our automated grocery warehouses house highly complex robotics, software, and systems that are underpinned by vast amounts of dynamic, non-linear data. No two are the same. As we continue to scale facilities for our retail partners around the world, how can we…

By Tomasz Muc, Software Engineer, Ocado Technology Our Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) is a unique end-to-end ecommerce, fulfilment, and logistics platform. It was built to enable some of the world’s largest retailers to benefit from the best customer experiences and unmatched economic returns allowed by technology. Its architecture utilises hundreds…

Code for Life team member, Ocado Technology This guide takes you through how to download and extract Chromedriver to use alongside Travis, a continuous integration tool. Read on for some useful tips on commonly encountered troubleshooting issues. Ocado Technology’s Code for Life initiative has now passed the 100,000 registered user…

While our automated picking bots are the ones that often grab headlines, our in-store-fulfilment (ISF) solutions allow grocery retailers to meet the growing demand for online orders using existing stores. Our ISF solutions are an important component of the wide fulfilment ecosystem we are building with partners worldwide, and are…

In this article, we explain the benefits of applying to become professionally registered with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). Several members of the Product Development team at Ocado Engineering recently completed the process of becoming professionally registered with IMechE. IMechE is one of the oldest engineering institutions in the…

Gabriel Straub, Chief Data Officer, Ocado Technology For many years, Ocado Technology has been at the forefront of applying artificial intelligence (AI) to real-world problems: AI powers personalised experiences in our webshop — learning what you like to order often and tailoring offers relevant to you, with accurate stock balancing…

Anna Miedzianowska, Product Manager, Ocado Technology — A couple of years ago, we supported Özlem Yüce’s talk at ACE Krakow. She’s an inspirational Chief Product Officer and coach, and we were so impressed by her talk about CD3 that we invited her to give presentations and training at our Polish and UK offices. I was confident that…

Our collaboration as part of the Horizon 2020 Soft Manipulation (SOMA) consortium led to breakthrough innovations in robotic manipulation capabilities, which are already disrupting the way robots are used in industry. …