Amazon Prime Air
For the next few weeks UPS, FedEx and
the U.S. Postal Service will be working overtime to make sure you get your
holiday gifts on time, but if Amazon CEO Jeff bezos gets his way, in the
future, it might be delivery drones working those extra hours.
In an interview with CBS’s 60 minutes
on Sunday evening, Bezos unveiled Amazon Prime Air, a service that delivers
packages via autonomous drones. With the service, Bezos said he hopes that the
company will be able to deliver packages into customers hands within 30 minutes
of the time they place an order.
The package is pulled off the lines by the octocopter, and
then using GPS it is directed to the delivery address. When it arrives it
releases the package on the doorstep. Because the octocopter has eight blades,
Bezos said, if one broke the drone would still be able to safely drop off a
package. As many have remarked, it looks like something out of the Jetsons.
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