{"id":15202,"date":"2021-07-29T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=15202"},"modified":"2021-07-28T15:57:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T22:57:42","slug":"how-many-robots-does-it-take-to-run-a-grocery-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/29\/how-many-robots-does-it-take-to-run-a-grocery-store\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few years ago I found myself wasting my life in the bowels of Google&#8217;s enterprise apps group. (How &amp; why that happened is a long, salty story\u2014but like everything good &amp; bad, the chapter passed.) In the course of that we found ourselves talking with IT folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocadogroup.com\/technology\/technology-pioneers\">Ocado<\/a>, a company that&#8217;s transformed from grocery shopping into the provider of really interesting robotics. Check out this rather eye-popping demonstration of how their bots fulfill orders at crazy speed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ssZ_8cqfBlE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[Via Dave Musgrave]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I found myself wasting my life in the bowels of Google&#8217;s enterprise apps group. (How &amp; why that happened is a long, salty story\u2014but like everything good &amp; bad, the chapter passed.) In the course of that we found ourselves talking with IT folks at Ocado, a company that&#8217;s transformed from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15205,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15202\/revisions\/15205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}