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This is a grocery packing warehouse in the south -east of London.

Folks have ordered their groceries online, and instead of people walking up and down the aisles of a traditional grocery store to pick up items,

人們已經開始線上訂購食品雜貨，不再需要在傳統雜貨店的過道里走來走去挑選商品，

these little devices move more than a million items every day between them.

這些小型裝置每天總共運送超過一百萬件物品。

Instead of trying to build machines that fit into a world designed for humans, this entire facility, the size of seven football fields, is custom -built to make this as efficient as possible.

這處佔地相當於七個足球場的設施並非試圖製造出能適應為人類設計的世界的機器，而是專門為實現最高效率而定製建造的。

I cannot get across on camera just how incredibly large this whole place is.

鏡頭根本拍不出這整個地方到底有多大。

The top speed of those boxes is about 14km an hour, and they pass within 5mm of each other when they move.

這些箱子的最高速度約為每小時14公里，移動時彼此之間的距離僅為5毫米。

So, how many robots are there in the hive?

那麼，這個蜂群裡一共有多少個機器人？

Well, that depends on how you count them.

這取決於你怎麼統計它們。

What you're looking at behind me is the hive.

我身後你們看到的這個就是蜂箱。

We've got the grid, which is the metal structure.

我們已經拿到了網格架，也就是那個金屬結構件。

It's filled with products, so that product is housed within what we call totes, or these open boxes that you can see at the top of the grid.

裡面裝滿了商品，這些商品被存放在我們所說的料箱裡，也就是你在網格頂部能看到的那些敞口箱子。

We have around 2 ,300 bots and they move the stock around the warehouse

我們有大約2300臺機器人，它們負責在倉庫內搬運貨物。

so that we can pair it up with customer orders to be delivered.

以便我們將其與待交付的客戶訂單進行匹配。

The bots will move in the X and Y direction.

這些機器人將沿X和Y方向移動。

They can also move in the Z direction.

它們也可以沿Z方向移動。

So we have a cable poise system that means

所以我們有一套纜繩平衡系統，這意味著

that they can lower down a gripper assembly and grab onto the stock that we have in the grid.

它們可以降下夾爪元件，抓住網格中的物料。

In some areas we have as deep as 21 totes all in a line.

在有些區域，我們的貨箱排成一排，堆得最高有21層。

We have sensors underneath the bot that mean

我們在機器人底部安裝了感測器，這意味著

that every time it passes over one of the squares on the grid it has a laser underneath it

它每次經過網格上的一個方格時，底部都會有一道雷射。

that can tell when it moves over that cell.

它在那個單元上方移動時就能檢測到。

So it will say I've passed a cell, I've passed a cell, I've passed a cell.

We have around 58 ,000 different types of individual products within the grid.

We'll use the huge amounts of data

that we gather to understand what customers are most likely to order

and place them in the easiest to reach locations for bots.

All of that combined means that we can have stock into the warehouse

and out again from our suppliers into a delivery van in just five hours.

The robots deliver their crates over to the packing area.

Some of that packing is done by humans, but there are mechanical arms as well.

One of the big problems they've got to solve is

that grocery packaging is designed for people and the interactions between all the objects they deal with can be complicated.

Currently we're standing underneath the grid structure that we saw earlier.

The robots that we saw are actually dropping off products to the station.

Once they're dropped off they become in control of the robot

and the robot decides how to pick them before the grid robot picks up the tote and takes it away again.

There's two 3D cameras above the totes so it takes an image of the storage box before it picks from it.

It decides on the best grasp point, confirm that the product is correct and then place it into the customer shopping

and it's doing all of that on live customer orders.

We make sure that we don't mix something that was heavy with something that's soft.

There are things that the robot can't pack, things such as very, very heavy, very large, or very fragile items, but there's a lot of range in between that.

It's fairly safe to call each individual packing arm a robot.

Each one has a separate controller and it has to make a lot of decisions in real time, using cameras and sensors on each individual arm.

But here in the Hive, it's not quite as simple.

Controlling all of this is what we refer to as the Hive Mind, so this artificial intelligence system that controls everything.

Once the stop comes in, from that exact point that it enters the system, the hive mind will track its every single movement.

The hive mind will tell the bots exactly where they need to stop, but it is the bots control system

that allows it to follow a movement profile and stop exactly as the hive mind expects it to.

There's just a 5mm gap between bots, so that's both as they pass each other and if they stop next to a bot as well.

This bot with the orange light may have experienced something within its sensors

and all of those readings it's taking that when it feeds

that back to the hive mind it's not quite what the hive mind was expecting

so it just brings it to a safe stop for investigation.

We do have a number of grid operators

that sit at the edge of the grid

and they're able to use our CCTV system

that we have above the grid to look at exactly what's going on with

that bot and they can try and fix that remotely and send commands to the bot wirelessly.

The boundary between individual and group is a little blurry.

Is a termite colony a collection of individuals working together, or one big super -organism?

Is the microbiome in your gut part of you?

Because in the last couple of decades, scientists have started to work out that the bacteria in your digestive system produce and consume neurotransmitters that affect how you think.

But most people wouldn't consider their gut bacteria to be part of them.

We tend to ascribe intelligence and identity to things that act at roughly our scale.

It's easy to look at the hive, see the moving boxes, and go, OK, 2 ,000 robots.

But with only one controller, and the boxes just following the paths they're given, I'd say there's a good argument that that is one robot with 2 ,000 ways to interact with the world.

Thank you so much to everyone here at Ocado.

There is a link to them and more about their technology in the description.

Thank you.

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：bot, hive, grid, robot, product。這段影片共有 69 個句子、1015 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 5:07。說話人語速較快，每分鐘約 198 個詞，會出現較多連讀和弱讀。 83% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
hive 名詞	/haɪv/	蜂群
grid 名詞	/ɡɹɪd/	網格 /網格, 格子
bot 名詞	/bɑt/	機器人 /機器人
tote 名詞	/toʊt/	托特包
sensor 名詞	/ˈsɛn.sɚ/	感測器 /感測器
warehouse 名詞	/ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/	倉庫 /倉庫
bacterium 名詞	/bækˈtɪəɹ.ɪəm/	細菌 /細菌
ascribe 動詞	/əˈskɹaɪb/	歸咎 /歸咎, 歸功 /歸功
blurry 形容詞	/ˈblɜːɹi/	模糊, 模糊不清
neurotransmitter 名詞		神經傳導物質 /神經傳導物質, 神經遞質 /神經遞質
termite 名詞	/ˈtɜː(ɹ).maɪt/	白蟻 /白蟻
organism 名詞	/ˈɔɹ.ɡəˌnɪz.əm/	生物, 有機體 /有機體
groceries 名詞	/ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/	雜貨 /雜貨, 買菜 /買菜
aisle 名詞	/aɪ̯l/	走道, 過道 /過道
supplier 名詞	/səˈplaɪə/	供應商 /供應商, 供應者 /供應者

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
drop off 動詞		掉落, 落下
pick up 動詞		拾取, 撿 /撿
work out 動詞	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	計算 /計算, 算出

值得反覆跟讀的句子

影片中簡短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常對話裡：

What you're looking at behind me is the hive.
We've got the grid, which is the metal structure.
Is the microbiome in your gut part of you?

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	is housed · be delivered · is done
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	have ordered · I've passed · have started

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 15 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I've, they're, can't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: hive /haɪv/, digestive /daɪˈdʒɛstɪv/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: hive /haɪv/, grid /ɡɹɪd/, bot /bɑt/, tote /toʊt/, warehouse /ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: controller /kənˈtɹoʊlɚ/, blurry /ˈblɜːɹi/, remotely /ɹɪˈmoʊtli/, fragile /ˈfɹæd͡ʒəl/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 hive, grid, bot 這類單詞。

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