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 streets, as per CNN.