Getting AI to work in our fleshy, messy is harder than you think
Getty Images At the warehouses of British online grocery company Ocado Technology, robots, guided by AI, whizz around on rails at speeds of up to four metres per second, picking a 50-item order in minutes. The journeys then taken by Ocado’s delivery trucks are optimised by a neural network that makes more than 14 million last-mile routing calculations per second, and adjusts delivery routes each time a customer places a new order or adds extra items to their shopping lists. But Ocado’s most ambitious automation efforts involve packing robots. At the time of writing the company has five ro...