Microsoft intends to compete with Amazon Go stores without cash registers

In January of this year, Amazon opened to visitors the Amazon Go store, which had previously worked in test mode in Seattle, Washington, without the usual cash registers and sales assistants, in which customers are monitored by cameras with machine vision, and money for goods is debited automatically.

In the near future, Amazon plans to open automated Go stores in Chicago and San Francisco, and Microsoft may compete in this field: as Reuters reports, it is working on its own technology that will eliminate checkouts, and is negotiating its implementation with the retailer Walmart.

According to the agency, Microsoft hired a computer vision specialist who participated in the Amazon Go project to work on the project. The company is now rumored to be experimenting with cameras that could be placed on shopping carts and shopping carts to record what items shoppers place in them. In addition, Microsoft partners are working on automatic payment systems for goods.

As The Verge suggests, Microsoft's project is based on technology used in Kinect sensors that can track and recognize movements.

Note that other companies are also working on creating similar stores. For example, last summer, the Swedish company Wheelys began testing the automated mobile store Moby on the streets of Shanghai, and in November it became known that the French retailer Auchan, in collaboration with the Chinese company Hisense, plans to open several hundred Auchan Minute minimarkets in China without salespeople and cash registers.