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I see an emerging consensus here on HN that automating retail is a hard thing to do. Somehow though, Amazon Go just works. No robots, just cameras and machine l

I see an emerging consensus here on HN that automating retail is a hard thing to do. Somehow though, Amazon Go just works. No robots, just cameras and machine learning. It just seems to me Amazon is able to do this and Walmart isn't. For now. My bet is that 15 years from now it's going to be as common as an iPhone now (remember how common was an iPhone in 2005? not very...)

julienb_sea 6y ago
To be fair Amazon Go also doesn't use robots for any sort of inventory management. They literally have humans go around the store as needed, based on information collected by the cameras & tracking systems.