Self-driving grocery deliveries trialled by Ocado

The UK’s first trial of a self-driving grocery delivery vehicle is taking part in Greenwich.

The trial sees the CargoPod operating in a residential environment, delivering grocery orders to over one hundred customers.

It is part of the TRL-led GATEway Project together with Ocado Technology (a division of the online-only supermarket Ocado).

CargoPod, developed by Oxbotica, is guided by its autonomy software system Selenium, which enables real-time, accurate navigation, planning and perception in dynamic environments. The pod is able to carry a total of 128kg of groceries at a time.

The focus of the study is both on the commercial opportunities of self-driving technology and how it functions alongside people in a residential environment.