Ocado shows off robot hand for picking products in warehouse - without breaking eggs

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Robot arm intended to speed-up picking and packing of warehouse products

Online supermarket group Ocado, which also provides the infrastructure behind High Street supermarket group Morrisons' online effort, has showed off a robot hand that, it claims, is capable of safe...

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