ocado technology is behind the platform and the thousands of british—made robots which are exported around. we are now in the hive, and it's called that because the robots are operating kind of like a swarm of bees would. they are being controlled by an ai brain. the 2400 robots here are picking orders very fast compared to a human. each robot is capable of picking a 50—item order in five minutes. when you compare that to a human worker, the same order could take 90 minutes. there are over 50,000 items for the bots to choose from across two grids, one chilled and one at ambient temperature. each grid is the size of three football fields, with goods stacked 21 boxes deep. in terms of how the robots know what they're doing, we've got this hivemind that sits and runs in the cloud, and that knows the exact location of every product in this facility and it gives reports ten times per second on each movement of each product, and that is all in the planning, working out which bot goes where, what it should pick up and where it should take it. the bots themselves are don't have a lot of intelligen