How Ocado Technology trained an AI-first robotic picking system

How do you build a robotic picking system capable of handling over 50,000 different SKUs - each with their own shape, size and packaging? It's too complex to hard code. So you train it. On-Grid Robotic Pick (OGRP) is Ocado Technology’s AI-first robotic picking system. To develop OGRP, our technologists used Learning by Demonstration - teaching robotic arms using human motion capture and years of real-world data. Behind the scenes is a multi-layered AI stack, including: ▪️Real-time control models - large neural networks that convert live camera feeds into fast, predictive movement ▪️Visual inspection models - anomaly detection systems that adapt picking strategy on the fly ▪️Deep reinforcement learning - continuously improving performance from millions of production picks