This Article is From Dec 15, 2016

1 Small Delivery For A Man, 1 Giant Leap For Amazon, Drones

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Amazon, with drones, aims to make deliveries in 30 minutes or less.

Highlights

  • Amazon has begun delivering products using drones
  • Amazon, with drones, aims to make deliveries in 30 minutes or less
  • The packages to be delivered must weigh five pounds or less
Atlanta, US: Drone delivery has begun. On December 7, a bag of popcorn, along with an Amazon Fire TV stick, left a Cambridge warehouse in the UK and 13 minutes later, both were accepted by an Amazon customer, one of two who had agreed to be part of the test program.

A video posted by Amazon shows a fully autonomous drone, no humans involved, taking off from the warehouse and flying over fields to deposit the package just outside the customer's home.

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Amazon, with drones, aims to make deliveries in 30 minutes or less. Packages must weigh five pounds or less and can only be delivered during the day and in clear weather. The Seattle-based company plans to expand the trial to hundreds of users.
 

The new delivery service started by by Amazon through drones is called Prime Air.



 
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