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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has revealed that his company plans to use "octocopter" mini-drones to fly small packages to consumers in just 30 minutes. A demo video posted on the company's website showed the tiny robotic devices picking up packages in small yellow buckets from Amazon's fulfillment centers and then whizzing through the air to deliver the items to customers just 30 minutes after they made their purchase on Amazon.com. The mini-drones are powered by electric motors and could cover areas within a 16km radius of fulfillment centers, thus covering a significant portion of the population in urban areas. It projected a more optimistic timeline than Bezos himself for the project to be activated, saying the FAA's rules could be in place as early as 2015 and that Amazon Prime Air would be ready at that time. Bezos hinted that part of the motivation behind the mini-drones was to make sure Amazon remains on the cutting edge of the retail industry.