Ocado 'going into production' imminently on robotic picking with in-house developed suction cup tech

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Full-scale working robotic hands to follow in three-to-five year

Ocado is set to go into production on the suction cups that it will be using in its robotic picking technology. These will be combined with the vision systems Ocado developed in-house and will put ...

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