As a result, Amazon said Friday that it has aplan to kill the barcode.
“It will help us get packages to customers more quickly and accurately.”
The system, called multi-modal identification, isn’t going to fully replace barcodes soon.
Amazon has built computer vision into other products.
You canask an Echo Showsmart display, “Alexa, what am I holding?”
to get help recognizing objects around the house.
The feature is called Show and Tell and was designed with vision impaired people in mind.
The company says the accuracy is now at 99%.
The system faced an initial hiccup when it failed to catch color differences.
During a Prime Day promotion, the system couldn’t distinguish between two different colors of Echo Dots.
The only difference between the packages was a small dot that was either blue or gray.
