16 April 2021, 9:05 am EDT By Ocado online grocer ( Flickr/Adrian O. Alegria )
Ocado, the UK online grocer is now making an investment to help their business grow and create a technology for its online order-and-delivery services.
The company is taking a $13.8 million (£10 million) stake in Oxbotica, a UK startup that develops autonomous driving systems.
Ocado and Oxbotica teams up
Ocado is treating this as a strategic investment to create AI-powered, self-driving systems that will work across its operations, from cars within and around its packing warehouses through to the last-mile cars that deliver grocery orders to people s homes.
The online grocer stated it expects the first products to come out of this deal to be online within two years, most likely in closed environments like warehouses instead of less structured prospect of open street
17 December 2020, 12:55 am EST By
A massive two million packages are stolen every year in the country, as e-commerce and shipping companies leave said deliveries on porches or doorstep despite not having someone to receive it. However, the influencer and ex-NASA engineer did not take this sitting down after police refused to help him, despite having video footage of the perpetrator s face.
A former NASA engineer, now turned influencer, Mark Rober, shared his ingenious way to teach the thieves a lesson and catch them in the act by hiding a device on a normal package box and letting them steal it. The influencer shared his device on the video-sharing application YouTube, where he narrates every step on how to create the technology.