There are number of tech companies directly competing in this space:
There are competitive options, if you’re in retail you do not have to give Amazon all your “retail data” or use their tech.
There are competitive options, if you’re in retail you do not have to give Amazon all your “retail data” or use their tech.
Standard.ai apparently has a demo store in SF, although it's been closed due to the coronavirus epidemic.
Grabango - one installation in test at a Giant Eagle store.
Getzippin - one installation in test at a Lojas Americanas store. Their site gives the impression that it's really about getting people to install their phone app, so they can be spied upon.
v7labs - we're AI, we don't need installations.
It's always been a question of when the supporting technology was going to be good enough to make it work. The idea has been around long enough for most of the early patents to expire.
Yep, I meant more along the lines of how you put it i.e. packaged up and ready to start selling it as a boxed-up/drop-in solution.
Conclusion : ideas are worthless, Execution is key
This was also often the conclusion found during the Dark Ages. ;D
Do you mean to say that doing something well is way better than imagining doing something well?
Ie. Good ideas are valuable
To me, that's part of the reason why thought pieces are valuable to me. Also, unconventional tracks at academic conferences, like provocations at DIS 2020 [1] (which I cite here since it's on my mind because I'm personally applying to it right now).
Execution can bring profit. Ideas might not.
History is full of examples of visionaries coming up with ideas that have inspired and fueled others--in some cases whole industries have been founded on these ideas. For instance, Doug Engelbart gave the "Mother of All Demos" in 1968 [1]. It was a proof of concept, but the ideas he talked about were implemented by other companies--who profited from it.
It is unfortunate that we live in a world where ideas hold such little monetary value, but they're most certainly not worthless.
But let's say you have very good ideas but you're a mediocre executioner.
1. Could you find a very lucrative job/partnership mostly because of your ideas, and get quality help with the execution ? It's possible.
2. Ideas are easy to steal. Do you have a decent strategy to prevent that from happening ? Those sometimes exist.
3. Not every business sucseeds. Can you try repeatedly ? Maybe, depending on context.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Will
I was always confused as to why they'd spend money on vaporware advertising, since I don't think they were responsible for doing any of the things.
I get why they spent money on vaporware advertising.
But I don't get why there's no modern equivalent. No one seems to be making equivalent statements about technology that's 20-30 years away from today.
There are vague hints that AI and QC will somehow be awesome, but they're very light on specifics.
It's interesting how we got from the forward-looking 90s to the backward-looking 20s.
At PIXEVIA we develop the technology and run a fully working convenience store in Europe.
There are some fully automated stores the size of shipping containers in Beijing, but they're mostly demos, too.
I don't think anybody really has this working well enough to deploy. It has that machine learning "we got to 95%" look. This is something that's easy to almost do, and the last 5% is really tough.
I do love how the very first banner video standard.ai shows is how one person passes an item to another. I'm curious to see all the edge cases Amazon Go ran into over the year or two they ran. I can see a lot of messy cases like that coming up.
All the way down in Australia.
Although not yet doing automatic checkout, but most of the technology needed for it is there.
What if I grab two items with one hand, and then put one back? Will the system correctly track this?