# Ocado Smart Platform: robot model

Canonical ID: `fa37baec-4f69-477a-a794-813f797314f8`

- **Slug:** ocado-smart-platform
- **Form factor:** amr
- **Maturity stage:** commercial
- **Lifecycle:** active
- **Deployments registered:** 0

## Specs

- **notes:** [object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
- **formFactor:** amr (grid-based grocery-fulfillment automation; bots on a 'Hive' grid)
- **classification:** grid-bot AS/RS (the Hive grid + bots directed by central AI 10x/sec), NOT a free-roaming AMR

## Deployments

_No deployments registered for this model._

## Supply chain

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this model's suppliers._

_Suppliers appear when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Ocado Smart Platform?

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.

### Who makes Ocado Smart Platform?

Ocado Smart Platform is made by Ocado Group, based in Hatfield, England, UK, founded in 2000.

### Where is Ocado Smart Platform deployed?

No verified deployments of Ocado Smart Platform are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.

### What is Ocado Smart Platform's maturity stage?

Ocado Smart Platform is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.


## Sources (6)

1. https://www.ocadogroup.com/about-us/osp-partners
2. https://www.ocadogroup.com/about-us/our-technology
3. https://www.ocadogroup.com/investors/results-and-presentations/ocado-group-full-year-results-2025
4. https://www.grocerydive.com/news/kroger-canceling-charlotte-cfc-closing-nashville-spoke-ecommerce-ocado/807167/
5. https://chainstoreage.com/kroger-pay-350-million-automation-partner-it-scales-back-robotic-warehouses
6. https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/announcement-of-partnership-between-ocado-solutions-and-aeon-897037013.html

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