Panera is the first national restaurant chain to announce that it will adopt hand scanner technology. Here's what you need to know.

Panera is the first national restaurant chain to announce that it will adopt hand scanner technology. Here's what you need to know.

An Amazon patent filed in 2018 and published in December detailed a "non-contact biometric identification system" that "includes a hand scanner that generates images of a user's palm.

Except hand scanners are difficult or nearly impossible to install on mobile devices or even computers. Amazon's use case, however, is almost the perfect setting for the technology.

An Amazon patent application suggests the e-commerce giant is working on a hand-scanning identification system for its Amazon Go stores.

Panera is the first national restaurant chain to announce that it will adopt hand-scanner technology. Here’s what you need to know.

Panera is the first national restaurant chain to announce that it will adopt hand-scanner technology. Here’s what you need to know.