Question: Please answer question 8 . and if possible check the answer of question 6 and the other answers, but most importantly question 8 5:20 74


Please answer question 8 . and if possible check the answer of question 6 and the other answers, but most importantly question 8
5:20 74 % . . (A) The next time you pack your bags at the supermarket checkout, give yourself a small paten the back. A task which is so simple for humans - quickly and efficiently packing a bag of groceries of different sizes and shapes without crushing anything - is something that until recently has been beyond the abilities of robots. It requires vision systems to locate the products, a flexible and strong hand to grab items and a sophisticated artificial intelligence which knows that a carton of eggs should not be stacked under a four-pint bottle of milk. It is a problem that James Matthews, the chief executive of Ocado Technology (part of the Ocado Group) is wrestling with in the warehouses that handle online orders. The company has a sophisticated and a well- decorated warehouse in Erith in east London, which is already highly automated. (B) The process of packing takes some certain steps to be done, and it costs the company a lot of money. Hundreds of robots zip around a grid, collecting groceries and bringing them to a member of staff who will pack them into boxes, which are then loaded on to trucks for delivery "We're typically picking 50 different items of different shapes and sizes, and how dense we pack them is absolutely critical to the economics of our business. "If we put one thing per box on the road, then we're going to use a lot of vans very inefficiently." Ocado sells its system to supermarkets all over the world, but those customers are demanding ever greater efficiency, so training robots to pack the bags would make economic sense. (C) 1-The company had already been working with five robotic arms at the Erith warehouse, "It's a very challenging space. 2- It's not one where you can plot a very direct path to a solution there. Some of this stuff is still warm from academia." says Mr Matthews. 3- But now the process is accelerating with two big acquisitions. 4-Ocado is paying S262m (198m) for Kindred Systems, a San Francisco-based firm that makes robotic sorting systems. 5-In addition, it is buying Las Vegas-based Haddington Dynamics for S25m (19m) which makes lighter-weight, and highly sensitive robotic arms. 6-Kindred's sorting system is already used to pick products in clothing warehouses, including some owned by Gap. 7-This is a good sorting system that is used in Gap (D) Kindred system could be effectively used for the process of packing for its advantages. Mr. Matthews thinks this tech can be adapted and developed for the grocery sector. "We now intend to bring the two systems together. It will have some of our machine leaming models that is very specific to grocery problems, and it will have some aspects of the Kindred platform that they've 2 gone much deeper on." In particular, Kindred is more advanced on tele-operation, supervised autonomy, which is where humans monitor and control multiple robots remotely. "They [Kindred] can watch hundreds of these robots. And in the very small percentage, but critical moments, when the robot needs some help, they can provide that remote system very, very effectively." So over the next year Ocado will be training the artificial intelligence used by Kindred, on grocery products, (E) Ocado Company would also like to adapt the Haddington Dynamic system. The company hopes to have a robot that can replace human pickers within two or three years, but people will not be completely replaced. Mr. Matthew is less forthcoming about the way Ocado plans to use technology from Haddington Dynamics, the maker of lightweight robotic arms, which can move very precisely. "We've got some interesting, somewhat 'secret squirrel' use cases where lighter is a big play," he says. Mr. Matthews is not giving much away, but says there is a limit to what a robotic arm can do if it just uses cameras to sense objects - imagine packing a bag if you could only tise your eyes and not feel the products. Haddington's robotic arms are highly sensitive, so Ocado is researching how they might be integrated into the warehouse system. (F) There is a great possibility that the demand for such technology is going to grow. Back in July the chief executive of Ocado Group, Tim Steiner said: "The world as we know it has changed. "As a result of Covid-19, we have seen years of growth in the online grocery market condensed into a matter of months; and we won't be going back." The picking, packing and delivery of groceries process is being very hard to be done during the pandemic, partly because most of it depends on human labor so technology from the likes of Ocndo will be in high demand. 7:06 A till 64% 1- What is the main idea of this passage? (1 mark) a- The Ocado system b-Technology of packing groceries - Mr. Matthew's business Answer: B 2- What does the word "Forthcoming" in paragraph "E" mean? (0.5 mark) a-Ready to take an action b- Curious to know about something c-Willing to share information about something Answer: A 3 3- What is the topic sentence of paragraph C? (1 mark) a- The first sentence b- The third sentence C-The fifth sentence Answer: A 4- What is the author's purpose for writing this text? (1 mark) a-To persuade the reader that the Ocado's system is effective b-To inform the reader of the new technologies for packing groceries - To inform the reader of the plans of Mr. Matthew's company Answer: B 5. What is the author's tone in the passage? (0.5 mark) a-Neutral b- Ironic C. Biased Answer: 6- What can be inferred from this passage about the future of similar technological systems? Support your answer with evidence from the passage. (1.5 mark) *That the technological systems with artificial intelligence can change the world, by working more than human and with less cost than human, it can also replace with humans like in corona the people cant work. So, we can replace them with robots. 7- The last sentence in paragraph A which is "The company has a sophisticated and a well- decorated warehouse in Erith in east London, which is already highly automated" is............ (0.5 mark) 3- A fact b- An opinion C- A blend Answer: 8-What are some features of the Kindred system that Ocado Company is integrating? Mention two features and support your answer with evidence from the passage. (1 mark)Step by Step Solution
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