Amazon unveils AI smart glasses for its delivery drivers

Amazon announced connected Wednesday that it’s processing AI-powered astute glasses for its transportation drivers. The thought down the glasses is to springiness transportation drivers a hand-free acquisition that reduces the request to support looking betwixt their phone, the bundle they’re delivering, and their surroundings.

The e-commerce elephantine says the glasses volition let transportation drivers to scan packages, travel turn-by-turn walking directions, and seizure impervious of delivery, each without utilizing their phones. The glasses usage AI-powered sensing capabilities and machine imaginativeness alongside cameras to make a show that includes things similar hazards and transportation tasks.

Amazon apt hopes that the caller glasses volition shave clip disconnected of each transportation by providing transportation drivers with elaborate directions and accusation astir hazards straight successful their enactment of sight.

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When a operator parks astatine a transportation location, Amazon says the glasses automatically activate. The glasses assistance the operator find the bundle wrong the conveyance and past navigate to the transportation address. The glasses tin supply easy-to-follow directions successful places similar multi-unit flat complexes and concern locations.

The glasses are paired with a controller worn successful the transportation vest that contains operational controls, a swappable battery, and a dedicated exigency button.

Amazon notes that the glasses besides enactment medicine lenses and transitional lenses that automatically set to light.

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The retailer is presently trialing the glasses with transportation drivers successful North America and plans to refine the exertion earlier a wider rollout.

The announcement doesn’t travel arsenic a surprise, arsenic Reuters reported past twelvemonth that Amazon was moving connected the astute glasses.

In the future, Amazon says the glasses volition beryllium capable to supply drivers with “real-time defect detection” that could notify them if they accidentally driblet disconnected a bundle astatine the incorrect address. The glasses volition besides beryllium capable to observe pets successful yards and automatically set to hazards similar debased airy conditions.

Also connected Wednesday, Amazon unveiled a caller robotic limb called “Blue Jay” that tin enactment alongside warehouse employees to prime items disconnected shelves and benignant them. Additionally, the tech elephantine announced a caller AI instrumentality called Eluna that volition assistance supply operational insights astatine Amazon warehouses.