Amazon (sales of US$469.8 billion in 2021, up by 22% from 2020) has declared battle against “vacuum logistics”. This is a real ecological and economic scourge of e-commerce, with packages that are too large filled with 80% of polystyrene wedges. To succeed with more accurate package sizes, the company has been deploying “deep learning” technology, combined with natural language processing and computer vision for six years.
The scale of deliveries, based on hundreds of millions of products,...
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