Ocado acquires startup robotic firms
November 2, 2020
Ocado, the British online grocer, has acquired two U.S. robotics startups — Kindred Systems and Haddington Dynamics — that it says will help in its “mission to solve one of the world’s hardest challenges in robotics, the picking and packing of groceries.”
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