At its huge campus south of Beijing, JD is testing a new store that relies on computer vision and sensors on the shelves to know when items have been taken. The system tracks shopping without tagging products with chips. Payment, which for now still happens at a kiosk, is done with ficial recognition. JD and Alibaba both plan to sell their systems to other retailers and are working on additional checkout technologies. (Retailers Race Against Amazon to Automate Stores, by the New York Times)
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