THE VIDEO SHELF · warehouse automation
How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?
Tom Scott tours Ocado's automated grocery warehouse, where thousands of robots move boxes on a grid called the Hive, and asks whether they are individual robots or a hive mind.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited in automation and robotics threads as the example of a warehouse built robot-first.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Tom Scott
- Topic
- warehouse automation
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 18
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Tom Scott had a good video a couple of weeks ago about a grocery packing warehouse that has a sophisticated picking network: [VIDEO]
cbm-vic-20 on Hacker News · 2021-07
In Intrinsic, a new Alphabet companyI thought this was an interesting insight into what a fully-automated grocery store looks like. And also wild to think about how different things are when you design them for automation from the ground up. [VIDEO]
cecilpl2 on Hacker News · 2022-01
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