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Amazon Prime Air
If you follow the drone industry at all you know that Amazon, the online retailer, has been planning to use drones to deliver packages for some time now. But what most people don’t know is that this is already happening. In December of 2016, Amazon delivered their first package via Amazon Prime Air to a customer in rural England. Check out the behind-the-scenes look at that delivery and what...
Amazon Files Patent For Tiny Companion Drone
Amazon has made it clear that the company intends to use drones in its business. The company is developing a system that allows drones to deliver small packages to its customers. But in addition to package delivery, Amazon has filed a patent for small drones that can “ride along” with regular citizens or police and help them with tasks. With police, the drones would be programmed to re...
Jeff Bezos Details Amazon’s Drone Delivery Plans
Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of online retail giant Amazon.com, recently discussed his company’s plans for light package drone delivery in more detail. One important element that he mentioned was that customers would participate in the delivery process by printing symbols that the drone would recognize and use as a location beacon to land in the right yard. This, along with remote charging st...
Amazon Testing Delivery Drones In England
Because of regulations in the United States about drone flying being “line of sight” and under certain altitudes, Amazon has had to move to the English countryside to test their delivery drones. This testing is taking place in the tiny town of Worsted Lodge, England and is showing promise. And Amazon is not alone in testing drone technology in different corners of the world. In New Zea...
Amazon Working with UK Government on Drone Delivery
For several years Amazon, one of the world’s largest online retailers, has been working on the idea of drone delivery for package shipment. And while most of this work has been done in secret in a remote part of Canada, Amazon has now taken one step closer to making this vision a reality by partnering with the British government supported by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), As the UK’s...