Amazon’s new smart shopping cart looks like it has a pair of eyes peering at your groceries
by James Vincent from The Verge - All Posts on (#61ADH)
Amazon has announced an updated version of its smart Dash Cart - a shopping cart that lets users scan and pay for their purchases as they shop to avoid waiting in checkout lines.
The original Dash Cart launched in 2020 and Amazon has been slowly rolling them out (ho ho) to its Fresh grocery stores and Whole Foods Market stores. It's clear they're still a bit of an experiment, though, and Amazon says the new Dash Cart will only be available at its Westford, Massachusetts Whole Foods store some time in the coming months," before slowly heading to other Fresh and Whole Foods locations across the US.
The cart's main feature is a sensor array in the rim that uses AI-powered cameras and barcode scanners to identify whatever you put in (or...