Incident 126: Three Robots Collided, Sparking Fire in a Grocer's Warehouse in UK
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Ocado has apologised to customers for cancelling their orders after a major warehouse fire broke out when three robots collided.
Around 100 firefighters and 15 fire engines tackled the blaze at the three-storey depot in Erith, south London,…
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Robots are credited with boosting efficiency in some industrial use cases. But, as a major UK grocery service just found out, that doesn't mean they're not accident-prone like humans. Ocado — which competes with Amazon Fresh — has been forc…
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Ocado had to cancel orders and shut down the facility for a few days.
Robots may be the future of order fulfillment (and cleaning and gardening), but there's still a long way to go before it's completely safe to rely on them. Online grocer …
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Online-only grocer Ocado was forced to cancel some customers’ orders last week following a fire at its London warehouse. This marks the second fire Ocado has experienced at one of its warehouses; this time, a three-robot collision is to bla…
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