Warehouse
Lotte and Ocado opened their first robot warehouse in South Korea, serving about 4 million households in Busan.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported · Sets Ocado grid robots's stage
What the source says
“Today, Lotte and Ocado launched their first automated CFC, which will serve a catchment covering 4m households across Busan.”
What it means
Ocado grid robots, from Ocado Group, is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. This event is one of the milestones that placed it there. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: Our sources report it working without human help.
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