Amazon drone delivery proposal now patented
9 years, 10 months ago

Amazon drone delivery proposal now patented

CNN  

Washington CNN — Delivering packages wherever you want it, through the air, via drone in just 30 minutes – that’s Amazon’s vision and the company just made another step forward. On the heels of getting FAA permission for experimental test flights in the United States in March, the U.S. Patent and Trademark office has published Amazon’s patent application for its drone delivery system. The patent application describes a customer option called “Bring It To Me.” With this option, using GPS data from the consumer’s mobile device, the drone locates and delivers the item to that location. “As the ordered item is retrieved from inventory, the current location of the user’s mobile device may be determined and the delivery location correspondingly updated. The UAV may utilize this information to plan the route from the source location to the delivery location.” If the drone must cross over a busy highway, interstate or roadway, “the navigation of the route may be adjusted to minimize the intersection between the UAV’s path and the road.” The drone would also constantly monitor for humans or animals that may be in its path or planned path.

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Amazon will start testing drones that will drop prescriptions on your doorstep, literally
1 year, 5 months ago

Amazon will start testing drones that will drop prescriptions on your doorstep, literally

The Hindu  

Amazon will soon make prescription drugs fall from the sky when the e-commerce giant becomes the latest company to test drone deliveries for medications. Amazon spokesperson Jessica Bardoulas said the company has made thousands of deliveries since launching the service, and is expanding it to include prescriptions based in part on customer requests. Amazon Pharmacy Chief Medical Officer Dr. Vin …

Amazon will start testing drones that will drop prescriptions on your doorstep, literally
1 year, 5 months ago

Amazon will start testing drones that will drop prescriptions on your doorstep, literally

Associated Press  

Amazon will soon make prescription drugs fall from the sky when the e-commerce giant becomes the latest company to test drone deliveries for medications. The company’s Prime Air division began testing drone deliveries of common household items last December in College Station and Lockeford, California. Amazon Pharmacy Chief Medical Officer Dr. Vin Gupta says the U.S. health care system generally …

Coming soon to your doorstep: Drone-delivered prescriptions from Amazon
1 year, 5 months ago

Coming soon to your doorstep: Drone-delivered prescriptions from Amazon

LA Times  

Amazon customers in College Station, Texas, can now get prescriptions delivered by a drone within an hour of placing their order. Amazon will soon make prescription drugs fall from the sky when the e-commerce giant becomes the latest company to offer drone deliveries for medications. The company’s Prime Air division began testing drone deliveries of common household items in December …

Amazon’s Drone Delivery Dream Is Crashing
1 year, 11 months ago

Amazon’s Drone Delivery Dream Is Crashing

Wired  

It took nearly three hours to deliver the card game that morning. The first official customer for drone delivery in Lockeford signed up for the service after Amazon promoted it at his children’s school science fair in September 2022. He figured maybe drone delivery was the future: “And I’ll tell my kids, ‘You got the first Amazon drone delivery ever.’ …

‘Amazon Prime Air’ drone service launched in US: All you need to know
2 years, 2 months ago

‘Amazon Prime Air’ drone service launched in US: All you need to know

India TV News  

Amazon has reportedly started to deliver orders from the drone service. 5 platforms to make hassle-free online payments The customers located in College Station, Texas and Lockeford, California, have reportedly started to receive a small number of parcels which got delivered by the Amazon drone service which is named ‘Amazon Prime Air’, as per The Verge’s reports. We are starting …

Drone deliveries set for big takeoff as cos take advantage of relaxed norms
2 years, 10 months ago

Drone deliveries set for big takeoff as cos take advantage of relaxed norms

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI :From 10 June, Redcliffe Labs will start using drones to carry medical test samples twice daily from its collection centres in the remote corners of Uttarkashi to its laboratories in Dehradun. Experts said the healthcare industry will be the first large-scale adopter of commercial drone delivery after the government liberalized rules for operating drones last August. The drone …

Amazon wins FAA approval to deliver packages by drone
4 years, 6 months ago

Amazon wins FAA approval to deliver packages by drone

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Getting an Amazon package delivered from the sky is closer to becoming a reality. The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it had granted Amazon approval to deliver packages by drones. Back in December 2013, Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos said in a TV interview that drones would be flying to customer’s homes within five years. Last …

Amazon says drones will be making deliveries in ’months’
5 years, 9 months ago

Amazon says drones will be making deliveries in ’months’

Live Mint  

Las Vegas: Amazon said Wednesday that it plans to use self-piloted drones to deliver packages to shoppers' home in the coming months. Amazon said its new drones use computer vision and machine learning to detect and avoid people or clotheslines in backyards when landing. "From paragliders to power lines to a corgi in the backyard, the brain of the drone …

Amazon says drones will be making deliveries in ‘months’
5 years, 9 months ago

Amazon says drones will be making deliveries in ‘months’

Associated Press  

LAS VEGAS — Amazon said Wednesday that it plans to use self-piloted drones to deliver packages to shoppers’ home in the coming months. Amazon said its new drones use computer vision and machine learning to detect and avoid people or clotheslines in backyards when landing. “From paragliders to power lines to a corgi in the backyard, the brain of the …

Where are the drones? Amazon’s customers are still waiting
6 years, 3 months ago

Where are the drones? Amazon’s customers are still waiting

Associated Press  

Jeff Bezos boldly predicted five years ago that drones would be carrying Amazon packages to people’s doorsteps by now. The result is a blown deadline on his claim to CBS’ “60 Minutes” in December 2013 that drones would be making deliveries within five years. Frank Appel, the CEO of DHL’s parent company, Deutsche Post AG, said “over the next couple …

Your Amazon Order Is Out for Delivery But Still Not on a Drone
6 years, 3 months ago

Your Amazon Order Is Out for Delivery But Still Not on a Drone

The Quint  

Frank Appel, the CEO of DHL's parent company, Deutsche Post AG, said "over the next couple of years" drones will remain a niche vehicle and not widely used. Snow, the CEO of Skylogic Research, says a rule permitting operators to fly drones beyond their line of sight — so critical to deliveries — is at least 10 years away. A …

Amazon’s dream of drone delivery gets closer with Donald Trump order
7 years, 5 months ago

Amazon’s dream of drone delivery gets closer with Donald Trump order

Live Mint  

Washington: Drone deliveries got a step closer to reality as the White House issued an order giving local governments more authority to conduct tests of the burgeoning new technology. Trump’s order, a response to calls from companies making and using drones, will allow local governments to apply to the Federal Aviation Administration for waivers allowing them to conduct tests of …

What’s The Future Of Drone Delivery?
7 years, 8 months ago

What’s The Future Of Drone Delivery?

Huff Post  

On December 14, 2016, Amazon made its first drone delivery, and suddenly the city of the future seemed a whole lot closer. However, a recent article Wired wrote about a UPS drone delivery test run shows us that drone technology isn’t even close to completely replacing the human element and delivery drivers just yet. For more on that and what …

Amazon Is Dead Serious About Delivering Your Goodies by Drone
7 years, 11 months ago

Amazon Is Dead Serious About Delivering Your Goodies by Drone

Wired  

Almost four years ago, in a puffy 60 Minutes piece about Amazon, CEO Jeff Bezos gave us a peek at a secret project: autonomous “octocopters,” also known as giant drones. The flying devices, Bezos assured us, would cut out UPS and FedEx to deliver packages to Amazon’s customers. On March 20th in Palm Springs, CA, I saw the first public …

Amazon patents design for giant flying fleet of connected aircraft to deliver big packages
8 years, 2 months ago

Amazon patents design for giant flying fleet of connected aircraft to deliver big packages

Daily Mail  

Amazon is developing technology that will allow a flock of drones to fly in convoy, allowing the machines to cover longer distances and carry heavier loads. The Amazon Technologies Inc. patent says that individual modules could detach from the collective drone body once they were no longer required, allowing them to operate independently to deliver smaller parcels. The company has …

Amazon's Real Future Isn't Drones. It's Self-Driving Trucks
8 years, 3 months ago

Amazon's Real Future Isn't Drones. It's Self-Driving Trucks

Wired  

Here in the US, trucks carry 10 billion tons of freight each year. This is why Amazon is apparently trying to Uber-ize the way it coordinates truck shipments across the country's largest online retail service, as The Wall Street Journal reported this week. But citing sources familiar with Amazon's business, The Journal says the company may be developing a mobile …

Google files for drone 'delivery receptacle' patent; component to store packages securely
9 years, 2 months ago

Google files for drone 'delivery receptacle' patent; component to store packages securely

Firstpost  

Google’s secretive drone delivery project could include a component designed to store packages securely. A patent filed Tuesday in the United States by the company, a unit of Alphabet Inc, describes a “delivery receptacle” designed to take packages from an “aerial delivery device” for deposit to a secure location. The delivery receptacle would then take the package to a safe …

Google says delivery-by-drone possible within a few years
9 years, 2 months ago

Google says delivery-by-drone possible within a few years

Live Mint  

Washington: Product delivery-by-drone in urban areas may be possible within a few years if the US government and the aviation industry agree to work cooperatively on the new technology, the chief of Google Inc.’s drone cargo project said Monday. The swift adoption of a registration system for small unmanned aircraft, begun 21 December to capture holiday gift buying, is a …

Amazon releases video showcasing unmanned delivery drones
9 years, 3 months ago

Amazon releases video showcasing unmanned delivery drones

Live Mint  

New York: Amazon has unveiled what its unmanned drones for package delivery would look like with a video launched on Sunday on the prototype of technology it announced two years ago. The promotional clip, narrated by television show host Jeremy Clarkson, shows a family receiving in about 30 minutes replacement soccer shoes for the one chewed up by its dog. …

Amazon unveils hybrid drone prototype to make deliveries within 30 minutes
9 years, 3 months ago

Amazon unveils hybrid drone prototype to make deliveries within 30 minutes

Raw Story  

Amazon has unveiled a new hybrid delivery drone that can fly both vertically, as a helicopter capable of landing in customers’ backyards, and horizontally like a conventional plane. Related: Amazon tests delivery drones at secret Canada site after US frustration The online retail giant released a video on Sunday in which the prototype is introduced by the former BBC presenter …

Amazon Offers New Glimpse Of What Its Drone Delivery Could Look Like
9 years, 3 months ago

Amazon Offers New Glimpse Of What Its Drone Delivery Could Look Like

NPR  

Amazon Offers New Glimpse Of What Its Drone Delivery Could Look Like YouTube Amazon has released a glimpse of what its much-anticipated drone deliveries could look like, although it warns the service is still very much in a testing phase. You may recall that in 2013, Amazon released this video of what it envisioned the delivery drone might look like: …

Wal-Mart To Challenge Amazon On Drone Delivery
9 years, 5 months ago

Wal-Mart To Challenge Amazon On Drone Delivery

Huff Post  

FABRICE COFFRINI via Getty Images Wal-Mart Stores Inc applied Monday to U.S. regulators for permission to test drones for home delivery, curbside pickup and checking warehouse inventories, a sign it plans to go head-to-head with Amazon in using drones to fill and deliver online orders. In addition to having drones take inventory of trailers outside its warehouses and perform other …

Wal-Mart set to take on Amazon and Google with home delivery drones
9 years, 5 months ago

Wal-Mart set to take on Amazon and Google with home delivery drones

Daily Mail  

Wal-Mart has applied to U.S. regulators for permission to test drones for home delivery, curbside pickup and checking warehouse inventories. In addition to having drones take inventory of trailers outside its warehouses and perform other tasks aimed at making its distribution system more efficient, Wal-Mart is asking the Federal Aviation Administration for permission to research drone use in 'deliveries to …

Amazon unveils drone traffic control system at NASA centre | India TV News
9 years, 8 months ago

Amazon unveils drone traffic control system at NASA centre | India TV News

India TV News  

Washington: While the world is looking to deploy drones for delivering groceries to hot piping pizzas, several giants like Amazon and Google are busy developing a drone traffic control system to tackle a scenario when these unmanned aerial vehicles will swarm the skies. On July 28, in the presence of drone-makers, regulators, engineers and others, Amazon unveiled a plan that …

Google reveals delivery drones to take on Amazon's package dropping project
10 years, 7 months ago

Google reveals delivery drones to take on Amazon's package dropping project

Daily Mail  

Hybrid 'tail sitter' design has wings for fast forward flight, and rotors for hovering for delivery and take-off and landing Google has built and tested self flying drones designed to deliver packages. Scroll down for video Google has already tested the drone delivery system in Australia HOME DELIVERY Eventually Google said it could use unmanned flying vehicles to deliver shopping …

Amazon seeks permission to use drones in the US skies
10 years, 8 months ago

Amazon seeks permission to use drones in the US skies

Firstpost  

Amazon is asking the Federal Aviation Administration permission to use drones as part of its plan to deliver packages to customers in 30 minutes or less. The online retailer created a media frenzy in December when it outlined a plan on CBS’ “60 Minutes” to deliver packages with self-guided aircrafts that seemed straight out of science fiction. The Seattle company …

Amazon's Prime Air drones: The Internet is already mocking it
11 years, 3 months ago

Amazon's Prime Air drones: The Internet is already mocking it

Firstpost  

While Amazon and Bezos are talking about a futuristic form of delivery, the Internet is already mocking Amazon’s idea of delivery from drones. Amazon announced that it would be launching Prime Air, a new form of delivery via drones. While Amazon and Bezos are talking about this futuristic form of delivery, the Internet is already mocking Amazon’s idea of delivery …

Amazon's Prime Air drones: The Internet is already mocking it
11 years, 3 months ago

Amazon's Prime Air drones: The Internet is already mocking it

Firstpost  

While Amazon and Bezos are talking about a futuristic form of delivery, the Internet is already mocking Amazon’s idea of delivery from drones. Amazon announced that it would be launching Prime Air, a new form of delivery via drones. While Amazon and Bezos are talking about this futuristic form of delivery, the Internet is already mocking Amazon’s idea of delivery …

Technology, rules keep Amazon drone delivery in hangar, for now
11 years, 3 months ago

Technology, rules keep Amazon drone delivery in hangar, for now

Firstpost  

Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos made a splash on Sunday with his radical plan to deliver goods to millions of its customers’ doors by using a fleet of unmanned drones, but the bold vision is not likely to become a reality this decade. It’s not,” Bezos told Charlie Rose on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” show on Sunday night, …

Amazon's delivery-via-drones plan: 3 reasons why you won't see it soon
11 years, 3 months ago

Amazon's delivery-via-drones plan: 3 reasons why you won't see it soon

Firstpost  

In a television interview over the weekend, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed his latest attempt in ensuring the online marketplace stays ahead of its competitors - Prime Air where orders are delivered by drones that too within 30 minutes of the customer placing the order. Interestingly, Bezos is not the only one to conceive such an eccentric idea.An Australian book …

Amazon's delivery-via-drones plan: 3 reasons why you won't see it soon
11 years, 3 months ago

Amazon's delivery-via-drones plan: 3 reasons why you won't see it soon

Firstpost  

In a television interview over the weekend, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed his latest attempt in ensuring the online marketplace stays ahead of its competitors - Prime Air where orders are delivered by drones that too within 30 minutes of the customer placing the order. Interestingly, Bezos is not the only one to conceive such an eccentric idea.An Australian book …

Amazon testing 30-minute deliveries using drones, Jeff Bezos reveals
11 years, 3 months ago

Amazon testing 30-minute deliveries using drones, Jeff Bezos reveals

Firstpost  

So now your favourite book will reach your doorstep along with your pizza. The company is now testing delivery packages using drones, CEO Jeff Bezos has announced. On the CBS television programme 60 Minutes, Bezos announced that Amazon is currently testing delivery packages with the help of drones. The Federal Aviation Administration is actively working on rules for unmanned aerial …

Amazon sees delivery drones as future[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
11 years, 3 months ago

Amazon sees delivery drones as future[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

Amazon's "Prime Air" will provide delivery service using drones, which can bring goods up to 5 pounds to customers in 30 minutes or less if they are within a 16-km radius of Amazon's so-called fulfillment centers, said CEO Jeff Bezos. It's not," Bezos told Charlie Rose on CBS News' "60 Minutes" show on Sunday night, demonstrating video of a buzzing, …

Amazon testing delivery with drones
11 years, 3 months ago

Amazon testing delivery with drones

China Daily  

Workers handle items for delivery at Amazon's new distribution center in Brieselang, near Berlin November 28, 2013. The world's largest e-commerce company said it's working on a way to get customers their goods in 30 minutes or less by drone. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a primetime interview that while the octocopters look like something out of science fiction, …

Amazon's drone plan: The real problem everyone's missing
11 years, 3 months ago

Amazon's drone plan: The real problem everyone's missing

Salon  

It will be some years before commercial drones whiz through U.S. skies, but as Amazon's latest announcement should make obvious, the application of unmanned aerial systems to commerce is inevitable. Speaking on "60 Minutes" Sunday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the retail giant's long-term plan to have small drones deliver packages. The drone delivery system already reportedly in development, Prime …

Delivery By Drone? Amazon Says A New Era Looms
11 years, 3 months ago

Delivery By Drone? Amazon Says A New Era Looms

NPR  

Amazon Says A New Era Looms Amazon is looking at drastically reducing its delivery times — to 30 minutes or less — as it plans a new service called Prime Air that it says could debut in a few years. Bezos tells Charlie Rose that Amazon's "octocopters" could be airborne within four to five years, using GPS coordinates to find …

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