[Animats]

Do any of those companies actually have a live customer? Not a demo store, a real paying customer with more than one location live?

Standard.ai apparently has a demo store in SF, although it's been closed due to the coronavirus epidemic.

Grabango - one installation in test at a Giant Eagle store.

Getzippin - one installation in test at a Lojas Americanas store. Their site gives the impression that it's really about getting people to install their phone app, so they can be spied upon.

v7labs - we're AI, we don't need installations.

[HUSSTECH]

https://www.thirdeyelabs.com/ - real customers - real money - multiple-sites Plus they beat Amazon to this concept by a good few months. https://www.thirdeyelabs.com/news. Granted all the focus/attention in this space is in the US. But it is happening elsewhere too.

[StrictDabbler]

"Beat them to this concept"? I can't even remember the first time I heard about this idea. 2003? 1995? I half-suspect I read about the idea in OMNI Magazine.

It's always been a question of when the supporting technology was going to be good enough to make it work. The idea has been around long enough for most of the early patents to expire.

[HUSSTECH]

> It's always been a question of when the supporting technology was going to be good enough to make it work.

Yep, I meant more along the lines of how you put it i.e. packaged up and ready to start selling it as a boxed-up/drop-in solution.

[perl4ever]

IBM had a commercial years ago, probably intended to be based on RFIDs, but same concept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvHK40N87mE

[onefuncman]

Qualcomm's spinout Gimbal went broke once so far trying to bring this tech to market, but they're still muddling along.

[Animats]

Found a Grabango video.[1] They did a test for NCR.

[1] https://vimeo.com/352588185

[exikyut]

Wow, I have no idea why but this is 404ing. IA can't tell me what the title was either.