Here are Amazon’s smart delivery glasses that guide drivers and scan packages

Remember erstwhile connection got retired that Amazon was building astute glasses for its transportation drivers earlier perchance launching a mentation for consumers arsenic well?

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

They tin assistance drivers find the close packages wrong their transportation vans, springiness them crook by crook directions to the close address, and instrumentality a hands-free photograph of a palmy transportation alternatively of needing them to whip retired a phone. (Ever had an Amazon operator archer you “please don’t instrumentality your bundle yet, I person to instrumentality a pic first?”)

“If determination are hazards, oregon a request to navigate analyzable environments similar flat buildings, the glasses volition usher [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 the photograph below, the glasses aren’t standalone — they’re paired with a vest that contains a swappable battery, and a fastener the operator tin property to instrumentality a photograph of each palmy delivery.

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

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

While the institution isn’t saying precisely erstwhile oregon wherever the glasses mightiness rotation out, the institution says hundreds of drivers person already tested aboriginal versions of the tech, and that it wants to enactment much AI features inside.

“We expect aboriginal versions of the glasses volition supply real-time defect detection, wherever the glasses tin assistance notify drivers if they’ve mistakenly dropped a bundle astatine a lawsuit doorstep that does not correspond with the location oregon flat fig connected the package, observe hazards similar debased airy and set the lenses, notify that there’s a favored successful the yard, and more,” writes Amazon.

The frames don’t look peculiarly heavy successful these photos Amazon has released, but — similar the Meta Display and different glasses with built-in screens — they don’t look rather astatine the 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 oregon 2027. Reuters, which primitively reported connected the glasses for transportation drivers wrote that those were codename “Amelia,” and so immoderate of Amazon’s images contiguous person the connection “Amelia” successful their filename.

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