{"id":198049,"date":"2024-10-21T02:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T07:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/amazon-is-powering-up-its-electric-delivery-vans-with-the-power-of-ai"},"modified":"2024-10-21T02:40:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T07:40:02","slug":"amazon-is-powering-up-its-electric-delivery-vans-with-the-power-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/amazon-is-powering-up-its-electric-delivery-vans-with-the-power-of-ai","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is powering up its electric delivery vans with the power of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-is-powering-up-its-electric-delivery-vans-with-the-power-of-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon is using a new, proprietary AI solution called Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval (VAPR) to reduce the time and effort it takes for delivery drivers to locate packages in their vans. Is it a game-changer, or more AI VAPR-ware?<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3KKkNSCyhBM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Somewhat lost in the hype surrounding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3KKkNSCyhBM\">Tesla \u201cWe, Robot\u201d event on 10\/10<\/a> was an AI press release from Amazon that promises to improve the lives of the people who use it today, rather than two years from now.<\/p>\n<p>VAPR makes Amazon delivery drivers\u2019 lives easier by automatically identifying the packages to be delivered at a given stop. The system then project a green \u201cO\u201d on all packages that will be delivered at that stop, and a red \u201cX\u201d on all other packages. When the driver picks up all the \u201ccorrect\u201d packages, VAPR delivers an audible cue to help ensure no packages get left behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is using a new, proprietary AI solution called Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval (VAPR) to reduce the time and effort it takes for delivery drivers to locate packages in their vans. Is it a game-changer, or more AI VAPR-ware? Somewhat lost in the hype surrounding the Tesla \u201cWe, Robot\u201d event on 10\/10 was an AI press [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}