Amazon Reveals ‘smart Delivery Glasses’ That Guide Drivers And Scan Packages

Remember erstwhile connection sewage retired that Amazon was building smart glasses for its transportation drivers earlier perchance launching a type for consumers arsenic well?

Amazon has just revealed those “Amelia” glasses to nan world — pinch a built-in show and an always-on camera to assistance drivers arsenic they go.

They tin thief drivers find nan correct packages wrong their transportation vans, springiness them move by move directions to nan correct address, and return a hands-free photograph of a successful transportation alternatively of needing them to whip retired a phone. (Ever had an Amazon driver show you “please don’t return your package yet, I person to return a pic first?”)

“If location are hazards, aliases a request to navigate analyzable environments for illustration flat buildings, nan glasses will guideline [drivers] safely to their destination,” Amazon claims, showing disconnected mocked-up video clips of what drivers should spot arsenic they work.

As you tin spot successful nan photograph below, nan glasses aren’t standalone — they’re paired pinch a vest that contains a swappable battery, and a fastener nan driver tin property to return a photograph of each successful delivery.

There seems to beryllium a dial surrounding that fastener arsenic well, and Amazon writes that nan controller besides has a dedicated emergency fastener to telephone for help. Amazon hasn’t said which sensors are wrong nan glasses, but images propose they whitethorn person 2 cameras: 1 centered supra nan nose, and 1 supra nan temple.

Amazon besides says nan glasses person modulation lenses — they’ll tint stronger successful sunlight, and get clearer without — and support medicine lenses arsenic well.

While nan institution isn’t saying precisely erstwhile aliases wherever they’ll rotation out, nan institution says hundreds of drivers person already tested early versions of nan tech, and that it wants to put much AI features inside.

“We expect early versions of nan glasses will supply real-time defect detection, wherever nan glasses tin thief notify drivers if they’ve mistakenly dropped a package astatine a customer doorstep that does not correspond pinch nan location aliases flat number connected nan package, observe hazards for illustration debased ray and set nan lenses, notify that there’s a pet successful nan yard, and more,” writes Amazon.

The frames don’t look peculiarly heavy successful these photos Amazon has released, but — for illustration the Meta Display and different glasses pinch built-in screens — they don’t look rather astatine nan level of user eyewear conscionable yet.

The Information reported successful September that Amazon’s glasses-with-a-screen for consumers, codename “Jayhawk”, mightiness motorboat for consumers successful 2026 aliases 2027. Reuters, which primitively reported connected nan glasses for transportation drivers wrote that those were codename “Amelia,” and so immoderate of Amazon’s images coming person nan connection “Amelia” successful their filename.

Unsurprisingly, Amazon’s blog station doesn’t talk immoderate imaginable ethical concerns that workers aliases customers mightiness person arsenic these glasses show nan “last mile” of nan transportation process.