Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Charles H Wood

Jacob Alex Siegel

Matthew Clark Webster

Robert P Irwin

Jeremy Samuel De Bonet

Jonathan Evan Cohn

Nicholas McMahon

Robert David Serra

David Wai-Man Wong

This disclosure is directed to an item-identifying, mobile cart that may be utilized by a user in a materials handling facility to automatically identify a user operating the cart and items that the user places into a basket of the cart. In addition, the cart may update a virtual shopping cart of the identified user to include items taken by the user. The mobile cart may include multiple imaging devices and oriented such that their respective optical axes are directed towards an interior of a perimeter of the top of the basket, and above the top of the basket. The mobile cart may also include an imaging device oriented away from the basket such that a user operating the mobile cart may scan a user identifier using this imaging device to enable recognition of the user.

Item-identifying carts

Wheeled cart

Wheeled cart handle

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Charles H Wood