{"id":57330,"date":"2017-02-08T02:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T02:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_shopping_robots_on_the_march_in_ocado\/"},"modified":"2017-02-08T02:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T02:00:53","slug":"bbc_shopping_robots_on_the_march_in_ocado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57330","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Shopping robots on the march in Ocado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is growing concern about the impact of automation on employment &#8211; or in crude terms &#8211; the threat that robots will eat our jobs.<br \/>\nBut if you want to see how important robotics and artificial intelligence can be to a business Ocado is a good place to start.<br \/>\n&#8220;Without it we simply couldn&#8217;t do what we do at this scale,&#8221; the online retailer&#8217;s chief technology officer Paul Clarke told me. With margins in the supermarket business wafer thin, continually bearing down on costs and waste has been vital.<br \/>\nAt its Hatfield distribution centre I got a glimpse of how far the process of automating the sorting of thousands of grocery orders has come. For now, you will struggle to spot a robot &#8211; unless you count a machine that inserts plastic shopping bags into crates &#8211; but software is doing a very complex job of sending the right goods in the right crates to the right human pickers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-38892383\">Read it all<\/a> (video recommended if you have the time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is growing concern about the impact of automation on employment &#8211; or in crude terms &#8211; the threat that robots will eat our jobs. But if you want to see how important robotics and artificial intelligence can be to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57330\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,175,589,149,199,168,597,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}