The display unit displays a user interface that provides all necessary instructions and information (such as “TAKE NEXT LEFT THEN LOCATE THE ITEM AT BIN J524” as shown in the figures below) to the worker in order to complete a task. TECHNOLOGY DISCLOSED IN THE PATENT APPLICATIONĪmazon’s wearable glasses consist of a display unit right in front of a worker’s field of vision. Amazon just filed a patent application for their augmented reality based wearable glasses. Amazon’s wearable glasses would enable their workers to work efficiently and effectively at the fulfillment centers. Further, the situation is even worse for the new workers. An average worker at the fulfillment center ends up wasting a significant amount of time figuring out a way to reach to a desired location. That’s nearly the size of 14 football fields. As per Amazon’s website, one of their fulfillment center in Dunfermline, Scotland, covers a million square feet (approximately 23 Acres) of land area. Amazon’s fulfillment centers are colossal.
Locating an item in an Amazon’s fulfillment center can be quite difficult due to the sheer size of these centers and the huge number of items they store. Amazon’s wearable glasses might change the situation as they provide a path that is most efficient for the workers to follow, saving energy/time and help them meet their targets.
Some workers were peeing in trash cans and bottles. Amazon’s wearable glasses can provide workers turn-by-turn directions right in front of their eyes in order to navigate them to the item of interest.Įarlier this year, Amazon was criticized for “brutal” working conditions in Amazon warehouses, where workers were afraid of going to the bathroom and missing their strict targets. Amazon has invented wearable glasses that will automatically assist workers in a fulfillment center for locating any item of interest.