The e-commerce giant has won two patents for a tracking technology that can nudge a human hand in the right direction — toward a warehouse bin, say.
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WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation
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WHY IT MATTERS: wearables offer the potential to help track our every move, providing a trove of information to improve health and work. Already there is proof that Apple watches can detect heart attacks. If this patent from 2016 by Amazon is built into a product and deployed, work productivity can improve as well. Of course this may have serious implications for privacy or work requirements, but we must get used to it. With robots falling in price and AI letting them do more and more human-level tasks, the future of work is bound to be measured much more closely than it is today.
Detailed description of the patent filing: https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-wins-patents-wireless-wristbands-track-warehouse-workers/
Apple watch detects heart attacks: http://fmcs.digital/blog/killer-use-case-for-wearables-study-apple-watch-accurately-detects-heart-problems/
State of Robot industry 2017: http://fmcs.digital/blog/3m-robots-in-2020-40b-industry-they-are-used-mostly-in-autophone-manufacturing-but-we-should-expect-more-industries-to-use-them-in-near-future-stats-china/