I worked as a cashier at costco and scanning bar codes is easy because we could spin the item and it would scan it without looking versus this which requires more hand movements and focus.

Wouldn’t it be smarter to just put everything on a conveyor belt with the camera above and let it just look at it.

If you network all the scanners together, they can share information with one another. Whatever one learns, the others do. Also, make that database accessible by the scanners online so they can share across the world.

Did the commenters watch the video and read the subtitles if they don’t know Japanese? It appears they did not.

At my local store they sell orange juice with fibers and without. The bottles looks almost the same, but one buttle has a small text “With fibers”. I mean, the scanner would never see the difference.

Aw. When you say beer can it doesn’t sound like a Jamaican saying bacon.

This is just a stupid statement. When the etiquette from, let’s say a bar code, has been peeled off, or damaged, the bar code scanners can’t recognize the thing. Object identification scanning of the products are essential, and so are robot cashiers. They can help the costumers whenever they need it.

This is just a stupid concept. When the etiquette from, let’s say a bottle, has been peeled off, or damaged, the machine couldn’t recognize the thing. Barcodes are essential, and so are real cashiers. They can help the costumers whenever they need it.

An average cashier can scan at least six articles, while that thing can only scan one.

I mean if this makes it over here to the US haha

that’s a good thing for Japan because there are not enough young people and young people should work in business and other things. If machines can do work that is not well paid and doesn’t require a lot of skills, that’s a good thing.

That’s interesting and smart. Sometimes, shops mistake the prices and you pay too much or too little.

Japan is soo cool!