Amazon has been issued a pair of patents for a wristband system that monitors whether warehouse workers are putting their hands in the right places.
Amazon, reportedGeekWire,The Verge, andThe Guardian, among others, has been granted a pair of patents for wristband tech that can pinpoint the location of warehouse employees wearing the wristbands and track their hand movements. The concept for bands and haptic feedback tech for monitoring task ...
Still, the company's patents often spark conjectures about Amazon's technology and business plans. Other Amazon patents have mulled using wristbands to track workers' hand movements, dropping packages from drones 25 feet in the air, or having drones themselves link up to form a kind of floating...
where “pickers” have to fulfill orders while being timed by handheld scanners. The company haspatentedwristbands that even track workers’ hands in real-time, using haptic feedback to nudge them when they reach for an incorrect item. And it recently expanded its use of opt-...