A new Amazon robotics delivery station is the first in Florida and Local 10 got an exclusive tour inside the prime location in Pembroke Park.

To examine Amazon’s nationwide delivery network, CR combined commercially available information about the company’s warehouses with data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Environmental Protection Agency. In partnership with the Guardian, CR also went to neighborhoods near Amazon warehouses in Chicago and the Los Angeles area.

UK online grocery retailer Ocado has been expanding its operations during the coronavirus pandemic. The company’s largest warehouse opened in 2018 and has 2,400 robots which pick orders from a range of 50,000 products. But they are also developing robots to work in other areas too including machines designed to collaborate with human workers to put groceries into customers’ bags.

The Kroger Co., America's largest grocery retailer, today announced it will offer more customers Kroger Delivery through the addition of new Kroger fulfillment centers powered by the Ocado Group, combining vertical integration, machine learning, and robotics to provide an affordable, friendly, and fast fresh food delivery service.

The fulfillment center cost $7.6 million to build out and will be staffed by 27 e-commerce workers, using an automated system to prepare orders for delivery. Jewel plans to open a second facility at Roosevelt Road and Canal Street on Chicago’s Near West Side next summer, Withers said.

Omni Talk's Chris Walton gives a step-by-step demonstration of how Best Buy's new pickup locker pilot works.

Like any good magician, Amazon has mastered hiding the trick: Its thousands of employees, fulfillment centers and rapidly moving conveyor belts remain out of sight. As you heard on Wednesday’s show, maintaining this illusion requires a small army of employees

According to research from analytics firm GlobalData, the robotics industry was worth $45.3bn in 2020. Researchers forecast a compound annual growth rate of 29% and expansion to $568bn in the year 2030. But where does UK automation fit into this picture? And how important to it is grocery tech company Ocado, rated by GlobalData as the leading British brand for robotics in a recent report on robotics?

The objective of the first phase of the company’s RFID rollout is to lay a scalable foundation, both operationally and technologically, for the program and to achieve accurate stock visibility in Under Armour retail stores.