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The smart humanoid robot that will help in grocery warehouses

By Sally Adee

11 January 2018

SecondHands project members present first robot prototype ARMAR-6

The ARMAR-6 robot is designed to help maintenance workers

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

If armies of Terminators start wiping out humanity, their ancestors might be traced to an upmarket grocery home delivery service that sells fancy toilet roll.

Ocado Technology, the innovation arm of the grocery retailer, today unveiled the first prototype of its , a humanoid robot called ARMAR-6 that will one day shadow and collaborate with maintenance workers in Ocado’s three warehouses in the UK.

The grocery company wants ARMAR-6 to learn to understand what people are working on, anticipate any help they might need, and…

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