Ocado Invests GBP10 Million in Self-Driving Startup Wayve for Autonomous Grocery Deliveries
06 Ottobre 2021 - 1:17PM
Dow Jones News
By Joe Hoppe
Self-driving technology startup Wayve said Wednesday that it has
secured a 10 million-pound ($13.6 million) investment from online
grocer Ocado Group PLC in a partnership that will develop
autonomous grocery deliveries in urban environments.
Wayve said its technology will allow self-driving delivery cars
to adapt to new, unstructured and highly-complex environments,
without the need for pre-programming, human-designed rules or
high-definition mapping.
The partnership will include an autonomous delivery trial,
fitting Wayve's technology onto a selection of Ocado delivery vans
and trialed on urban delivery routes for a year.
The trial will help test the technology's ability to navigate
congested streets and perform the challenging maneuvers that home
delivery systems will need to employ.
Ocado's chief of advanced technology Alex Harvey said the
company is determined to develop autonomous mobility systems to
improve the economics of its Ocado Smart Platform.
"We've been impressed with Wayve's approach to solving this most
complex of challenges and are excited to accelerate our
capabilities so that our retail partners globally can take
advantage of them at the earliest opportunity," Mr. Harvey
said.
Write to Joe Hoppe at joseph.hoppe@wsj.com
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