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Oxbotica raises $13.8M from Ocado to build autonomous vehicle tech for the online grocer’s logistics network Ocado, the UK online grocer that has been making strides reselling its technology to other grocery companies to help them build and run their own online ordering-and-delivery operations, is making an investment today into what it believes will be the next chapter of how that business will grow: it is taking a £10 million ($13.8 million) stake in Oxbotica, a UK startup that develops autonomous driving systems. Ocado is treating this as a strategic investment to develop AI-powered, se...

By Alec Mattinson2021-04-16T07:55:00+01:00 Top story Ocado has announced a partnership, including a £10m investment, with Oxford based autonomous vehicle software company Oxbotica to develop a range of vehicles. The two will collaborate on hardware and software interfaces for autonomous vehicles, enhancing and integrating Oxbotica’s autonomy software platform into a variety of vehicles. Ocado said the usage will range from vehicles that operate inside of Ocado’s Customer Fulfilment Centre buildings and the yard areas that surround them, all the way to last-mile deliveries and kerb-to-k...

Ocado has announced today that it has partnered with Oxbotica, to develop a range of autonomous vehicles. The use cases range from vehicles that operate inside of Ocado’s Customer Fulfilment Centre buildings and the yard areas that surround them, all the way to last-mile deliveries. The Ocado/Oxbotica relationship began in 2017, when the companies conducted a two-week trial using an early prototype delivery vehicle doing autonomous deliveries in Greenwich, London. Since the initial trial, Oxbotica has made progress in developing its platform, leading to today’s announcement of a broader r...