Technology Go – How Artificial Intelligence Influences Automotive Logistics

Two weeks ago, the e-commerce retailer Amazon opened its first offline convenience store, Amazon Go – without a cashier. On January 22, the first visitors of the Seattle store were tracked in the shop using image recognition and machine learning algorithms. The technology finds out what the visitors have bought and charges it automatically to their account. After the customer has scanned their smartphone to enter the store, cameras throughout the store track them as a 3D object without facial recognition. The biggest challenge for image recognition is to differentiate between similar-looking products and customers hands, which often cover the products and their labels.