Ocado Group’s 600 Series Bot: the world's most advanced 3D printed industrial product:

The super-lightweight fulfillment robot, or “bot”, is core to managing the large and diverse inventory requirements of an Ocado Customer Fulfilment Centre (“CFC”). It runs along the top of a hive structure in which totes of products are stored up to 21 bins deep and across areas equivalent to multiple football fields.

The 600 Series Bot is responsible for collecting and carrying individual totes of product, either to move inventory to make it more efficient for future order picking, or to bring product directly to robot or human pick stations to be bagged ready for delivery.

In comparison to previous models, the lightweight design of the 600 Series Bot - enabled by 3D printing - allows for the creation of lighter grids in our automated warehouses. These lighter grids can reduce installation time by up to 40% compared to our previous grid system, whilst lowering installation costs. 

The bot is three times lighter than its predecessor.