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Amazon is taking some intense new measures to ensure employees are properly social distancing on the job amid the ongoing pandemic. The company has created an AI-powered “Distance Assistant” to alert ...

It appears Amazon is taking steps to keep their warehouse workers safer, as they roll out a new tool to make sure their staff remains a safe distance from one another. The 'Distance Assistant' uses ...

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Amazon launched a tracking system based on artificial intelligence to allow employees in the offices and warehouses to maintain a certain social distance between each other. This should help reducing ...

With the COVID-19 pandemic came a new need to stay socially distant from other people. Self-isolating certainly helps in that regard, but Amazon kept its doors open during the pandemic, meaning its ...

Amazon.com Inc. says it is working to open source its new "Distance Assistant" technology, which helps people maintain six feet of distance from others. The technology was developed as Amazon ...

Amazon has deployed a solution called “Distance Assistant” which includes a TV, depth sensors and an AI-enabled camera to determine whether or not employees are six feet away from each other. Amazon ...