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Ocado Group (Ocado Technology)

Robot types: AMR, Cube robot. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 12.4/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 8 of 10 among Warehouse automation companies with incidents (926 tracked).

Analyst brief

The record for Ocado Technology contains a single entry: a December 2024 automated-warehouse malfunction that disrupted Christmas order fulfillment in London, logged as an outage of moderate severity. One event of this severity constitutes the entirety of the observed history; no pattern of recurrence is present in the data. The entry is press-driven, tied to a service-disruption event rather than a regulatory action. On the data available, this is an isolated operational disruption rather than a systemic finding.

Risk index

12.4/100RobotRisk index
26.7/100Median index across the 10 Warehouse automation companies with incident history (926 tracked, 916 with none)
8 of 10Rank in Warehouse automation (of 10 with incident history)
LowRisk band

Products and robot types

Industries: Warehouse automation (primary), AMR / mobile robot · Sectors: Warehousing and Storage

Risk is scored per product and robot type: each incident is attributed to the product it names, or to the company's matching robot type. Listed industry was AMR / mobile robot; RobotRisk files this company under Warehouse automation because that is where its documented incident risk sits.

Robot typeShare of company riskRank within type
Cube robot100%2 of 2
ProductRobot typeStatusIncidentsIndex
Ocado Smart Platform Cube robotshipping112.4

Incident timeline

Comparisons over time

Per-type breakdown

Incident typeUnique incidentsShare
outage1100%

Unique incident list

1 unique incident on file for this company.

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S2~Dec 2024 outage London, UKOcado automated warehouse malfunction disrupts Christmas orders in London · 1 delivery centre Daily Mail
S2 ~Dec 2024 · outage · Ocado automated warehouse malfunction disrupts Christmas orders in London
London, UK1 supporting source rowmedium confidence
SevDateSupporting source rowSource
S2~Dec 2024Ocado automated warehouse malfunction disrupts Christmas orders in LondonDaily Mail

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