December 2, 2013Amazon reveals Prime Air drone capable of 30 minute deliveries

According to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the drones will deliver packages to customers within 30 minutes of ordering

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As early as 2015, your Amazon purchases could be dropped at your door within 30 minutes courtesy of unmanned aerial drones. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed plans for the delivery service Prime Air (an extension of Amazon Prime which guarantees two-day shipping) in a 60 Minutes interview on Sunday night.

The service would ship orders under five pounds (2.3 kg) after they are packed into small plastic containers and then scooped up by Amazon's custom-built "octocopter." The drone then delivers the package to customers within a 10 mile (16 km) radius of Amazon's fulfillment centers.

Clearly the company will need to jump through various hoops to get the service off the ground, with public safety being a primary concern. "Safety will be our top priority, and our vehicles will be built with multiple redundancies designed to commercial aviation standards," the company says.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is currently working on rules and regulations for unmanned aerial vehicles, a process which Amazon hopes will be completed sooner rather than later. "We hope the FAA's rules will be in place as early as sometime in 2015. We will be ready at that time."

We have seen a rise in proposals for the use of drones to deliver commercial products. One Australian startup plans to use drones to deliver school textbooks to customers in March 2014, while The Burrito Bomber hopes to be dropping Mexican cuisine on people as soon as 2015. With Amazon's product range, however, Prime Air would be the first to do so on such a large and diverse scale.

It may sound like science fiction, but given that Bezos claims that 300 items per second will be ordered from Amazon on Cyber Monday, it is possible that flocks of Prime Air drones will be zipping around above us in the very near future.

See the drone during a test flight in the video below.

Source: Amazon

亞馬遜實現用無人機送包裹

12月2日，2013Amazon揭示總理空中無人機能夠30分鍾deliveries

據亞馬遜CEO傑夫·貝佐斯，無人機將在訂貨

圖片廊30分鍾內投遞包裹給客戶（2圖像）

早在2015年，你的亞馬遜購物，可以在你的門在30分鍾內禮貌無人機靶機下降。亞馬遜CEO傑夫·貝佐斯透露，計劃的送貨服務首相航（亞馬遜的擴展，從而保證兩天運費）在上周日晚間的一次60分鍾的採訪。

下5磅（2.3仟克）後，他們將船訂單服務被包裝成小塑料容器，然後舀起由亞馬遜定製“octocopter。”無人機然後傳送該包為客戶亞馬遜的物流中心有10英哩（16公裏）的範圍內。

顯然，公司需要通過各種鐵圈跳獲得服務離地麵，以公衆安全是首要關註的問題。 “安全將是我們的重中之重，我們的車輛將與設計，商業航空標準的多個冗餘建，”該公司說。

美國聯邦航空管理局（FAA）??目前正在規章製度無人機，一過程，亞馬遜希望將宜早不宜遲完成。 “我們希望美國聯邦航空局的規則將到位，早在某個時候在2015年，我們將準備在那個時候。”

我們已經看到在建議使用無人駕駛飛機提供商用産品的增長。一位澳大利亞的啓動計劃用無人機來提供教科書的客戶在2014年3月，而卷餅轟炸機希望能盡快2015年下降對人們的墨西哥菜，與亞馬遜的産品種類繁多，然而，總理航空將是第一個這樣做的在如此龐大和多樣化的規模。

這聽起來像是科幻小說，但鑒於貝索斯聲稱，300個項目第二個將來自亞馬遜網絡星期一下令，有可能總理航無人機群將荏苒上述各地我們在不久的將來

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