{"id":21901,"date":"2018-01-22T20:08:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T20:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=308186"},"modified":"2018-01-23T02:25:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T02:25:39","slug":"amazons-store-of-the-future-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2018\/01\/22\/amazons-store-of-the-future-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&rsquo;s store of the future opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_308187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 554px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><img class=\" wp-image-308187\" title=\"Amazon Go\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/Amazon-Go.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"300\" \/><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">(credit: Amazon)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Amazon&#8217;s first Amazon Go store opened today in Seattle, automating most of the purchase, checkout, and payment steps associated with a retail transaction and replacing cash registers, cashiers, credit cards, self-checkout kiosks, RFID chips &#8212; and lines &#8212; with hundreds of small cameras,\u00a0computer vision, deep-learning algorithms, and sensor fusion.<\/p>\n<p>Just walk in (as long as you have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?node=16008589011\" >Amazon Go app<\/a> and an Amazon.com account),\u00a0scan a QR code at the turnstile, grab, and go.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the shutdown of the dysfunctional U.S. government continues.* Hmm, what if we created Government Go?<\/p>\n<p>If you visit the store (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2131+7th+Ave,+Seattle,+WA+98121\/@47.6163708,-122.3422757,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x5490154bd0354e95:0xc34d67b1ef112fe5!8m2!3d47.6163708!4d-122.340087\" >2131 7th Ave<\/a> &#8212; 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. PT Monday to Friday), let us know about your experience and thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?node=16008589011\"><img style=' display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;'  class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-308189\" title=\"Amazon Go video\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/Amazon-Go-video.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>* January 22 at 6:11 PM EST: House votes to end government shutdown, sending legislation to Trump &#8212; <\/em>Washington Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&rsquo;s first Amazon Go store opened today in Seattle, automating most of the purchase, checkout, and payment steps associated with a retail transaction and replacing cash registers, cashiers, credit cards, self-checkout kiosks, RFID chips &mdash; and lines &mdash; with hundreds of small cameras,&nbsp;computer vision, deep-learning algorithms, and sensor fusion. Just walk in (as long as [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airobotics","category-computersinfotechui","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21908,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21901\/revisions\/21908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}