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Ocado Smart Platform at Monroe

Ocado Group (London; LSE: OCDO) licenses the Ocado Smart Platform (OSP), a grid-based grocery-fulfillment automation system in which fleets of bots operate across a fixed three-dimensional storage grid (the 'Hive'), directed by a central AI 'air-traffic control' system many times per second. It is recorded at commercial maturity, with 13 named OSP partners (including Kroger, Morrisons, Sobeys, Coles, and Aeon) and 72 million orders shipped in FY2025 (the 52 weeks to 30 November 2025, up 26%) across 122 modules. Its US deployment is in active flux: Kroger has scaled back, closing several customer-fulfillment centers in January 2026 and cancelling a Charlotte site, and paying Ocado $350 million in compensation. For the registry it is filed under form_factor=amr within the warehouse-automation cohort, with an explicit note that it is grid-based AS/RS rather than a free-roaming AMR.

Ocado Smart Platform by Ocado Group · Operated by Ocado Group · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified · Warehouse & Logistics Robotics

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PRIMARY SOURCE
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Ocado Technology's look inside 'The Hive,' the closed three-dimensional storage grid where thousands of bots perform goods-to-person grocery fulfillment. Facility-bounded autonomy: the fleet is coordinated by a central control system communicating many times per second, not open-world autonomy.

Ocado Smart Platform deployed at Kroger Customer Fulfillment Center in Monroe, OH. Automated grocery fulfillment.

Key facts

Technology
Ocado Smart Platform
Operator
Kroger
Coverage
Monroe, OH
Use Case
Automated grocery fulfillment
Fleet
AMR robots

Safety record

No incidents on record for Ocado Smart Platform at Monroe.

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Trust tier
Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
Last updated
2026-07-10
Model
Ocado Smart Platform
Company
Ocado Group
Location
United States/Ohio/Monroe
Operator
Ocado Group
Status
operational
Operator type
customer deployed
ID
7bc61b5a-b21a-467c-ab86-28db1abd6b98

Timeline

  1. Jun 2026
    created
  2. Jul 2026
    Current status: operational, reviewed
    Latest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.

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Ocado Smart Platform operates in Monroe. Explore the full verified map:

Sources (2)

  1. https://www.ocado.com/
  2. https://ir.kroger.com/news/news-details/2021/Kroger-Delivery-Introduces-Americas-First-Customer-Fulfillment-Center/default.aspx
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-10

Verification posture

Verified

High confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-07-10

Maturity + lifecycle

Maturity stage: commercial

Lifecycle: active

Architectural position

Cohort: amr

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Common questions

What is the Ocado Smart Platform deployment at Monroe?
Ocado Smart Platform, built by Ocado Group, is recorded as a deployment at Monroe on the DEPLOY registry. Ocado Group operates the deployment directly.
Who operates Ocado Smart Platform at Monroe?
Ocado Group, the manufacturer of Ocado Smart Platform, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
Have there been incidents at the Ocado Smart Platform deployment at Monroe?
No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.

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