{"id":234134,"date":"2025-10-23T04:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/234134\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:19:11","slug":"amazon-unveils-prototype-ai-smart-glasses-for-its-delivery-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/234134\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon unveils prototype AI smart glasses for its delivery drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lily JamaliNorth America technology correspondent<\/p>\n

\"AmazonAmazon<\/p>\n

Amazon has unveiled a prototype of artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses designed to be used by its delivery drivers.<\/p>\n

The “Amelia” glasses include a camera and built-in display, and pairs with a waistcoat with a button drivers can press to take photos of deliveries.<\/p>\n

“We’re testing it at a number of locations with over a dozen delivery service partners and hundreds of drivers across the country,” said Beryl Tomay, Amazon’s vice president of Transportation, at a launch event in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n

Amazon is the latest US tech giant to enter an increasingly crowded field of firms experimenting with wearables, but for now it is a product meant for drivers, not customers.<\/p>\n

Although Amazon is still experimenting with the product, it plans to eventually make the smart glasses available to drivers first in North America, then globally.<\/p>\n

Ms Tomay said that drivers “have been doing real deliveries with these” to customers.<\/p>\n

“We custom designed it for that use case,” she added. “There’s a very specific application here.”<\/p>\n

When asked by the BBC if the Amelia smart glasses might be marketed to consumers at some point in the future, Ms Tomay did not rule out the possibility.<\/p>\n

Amazon also unveiled a robotic arm which it said is designed to work alongside warehouse employees to sort parcels with greater speed and accuracy.<\/p>\n

The robot, which has been in use at a warehouse in South Carolina, will help reduce injuries and maximise the use of space in Amazon’s warehouses, the firm said.<\/p>\n

Amazon is also preparing to roll out an artificial intelligence (AI) system in its warehouses to manage operations and provide workers with suggestions for improving efficiency.<\/p>\n

“It pulls in historical and real-time data across a building to anticipate bottlenecks and keep operations running smoothly,” said the company.<\/p>\n

\"AmazonAmazon<\/p>\n

The smart glasses have a display that shows key delivery information<\/p>\n

Instagram and Facebook-owner Meta has also experimented with smart glasses in recent years.<\/p>\n

At its Meta Connect conference last month, the company unveiled a range of smart glasses powered by its Meta AI technology, including a pair of Ray-Bans with a built-in display.<\/p>\n

Unlike Amazon, Meta’s smart glasses target the mainstream consumer products market.<\/p>\n

Meta presented the hardware as a technology that allows users to remain more engaged in the real world compared to smartphones.<\/p>\n

For Amazon, the Amelia smart glasses could augment efficiency in the “last mile” of its delivery network.<\/p>\n

Ms Tomay said the smart glasses can detect when they are in a moving vehicle, which prompts them to automatically shut off.<\/p>\n

“From a safety perspective, we thought that was important. No distractions,” Ms Tomay told a group of reporters at an event in California.<\/p>\n

Ms Tomay estimated that the glasses could create up to 30 minutes in efficiencies per 8- to 10-hour shift by minimising repetitive tasks and helping drivers to quickly locate packages in their vehicles.<\/p>\n

The smart glasses also include a hardware switch on the controller that lets the driver turn off the glasses and all of its sensors, including the camera and microphone.<\/p>\n

Drivers “can choose to keep it off,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lily JamaliNorth America technology correspondent Amazon Amazon has unveiled a prototype of artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses designed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-234134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}