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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 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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...