Amazon introduced on Wednesday that it’s growing AI-powered good glasses for its supply drivers. The thought behind the glasses is to offer supply drivers a hands-free expertise that reduces the necessity to hold trying between their telephone, the package deal they’re delivering, and their environment.

The e-commerce big says the glasses will enable supply drivers to scan packages, observe turn-by-turn strolling instructions, and seize proof of supply, all with out utilizing their telephones. The glasses use AI-powered sensing capabilities and pc imaginative and prescient alongside cameras to create a show that features issues like hazards and supply duties.

Amazon probably hopes that the brand new glasses will shave break day of every supply by offering supply drivers with detailed instructions and details about hazards immediately of their line of sight.

When a driver parks at a supply location, Amazon says the glasses routinely activate. The glasses assist the driving force find the package deal contained in the automobile after which navigate to the supply deal with. The glasses can present easy-to-follow instructions in locations like multi-unit condo complexes and enterprise places.

The glasses are paired with a controller worn within the supply vest that accommodates operational controls, a swappable battery, and a devoted emergency button.

Amazon notes that the glasses additionally assist prescription lenses and transitional lenses that routinely modify to gentle.

The retailer is presently trialing the glasses with supply drivers in North America and plans to refine the know-how earlier than a wider rollout.

The announcement doesn’t come as a shock, as Reuters reported final yr that Amazon was engaged on the good glasses.

Sooner or later, Amazon says the glasses will be capable to present drivers with “real-time defect detection” that would notify them in the event that they by accident drop off a package deal on the mistaken deal with. The glasses can even be capable to detect pets in yards and routinely modify to hazards like low gentle circumstances.

Additionally on Wednesday, Amazon unveiled a brand new robotic arm referred to as “Blue Jay” that may work alongside warehouse workers to choose gadgets off cabinets and kind them. Moreover, the tech big introduced a brand new AI device referred to as Eluna that may assist present operational insights at Amazon warehouses.