AI mobility with mobile computing and advanced inventory management transformation with RFID. We are seeing the same now, with AI vision-guided automation moving from manufacturing into retail logistics. AI software can be combined with robotic arms, 3D sensing and smart cameras for picking, sortation and quality inspection use cases.
Jason Harvey: AI application building blocks –‘ enablers’ – can be used by retailers and manufacturers to develop applications integrated onto mobile computers connected to manufacturing execution systems, retail inventory databases and workforce task platforms. A worker can point their device camera at a storage space filled with containers and boxes covered in serial numbers, text and barcodes.
The AI-powered barcode localiser and text recogniser models see the barcodes and text and identify the correct items to pick, with an augmented reality layer on the screen telling the worker what’ s inside the box and additional intelligence like special handling requirements or hazardous contents such as chemicals.
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