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
亚马逊实现用无人机送包裹 12月2日,2013Amazon揭示***空中无人机能够30分钟deliveries
据亚马逊CEO杰夫·贝佐斯,无人机将在订货
图片廊30分钟内投递包裹给客户(2图像)
早在2015年,你的亚马逊购物,可以在你的门在30分钟内礼貌无人机靶机下降。亚马逊CEO杰夫·贝佐斯透露,计划的送货服务首相航(亚马逊的扩展,从而保证两天运费)在上周日晚间的一次60分钟的采访。
下5磅(2.3千克)后,他们将船订单服务被包装成小塑料容器,然后舀起由亚马逊定制“octocopter。”无人机然后传送该包为客户亚马逊的物流中心有10英哩(16公里)的范围内。
显然,公司需要通过各种铁圈跳获得服务离地面,以公众安全是首要关注的问题。 “安全将是我们的重中之重,我们的车辆将与设计,商业航空标准的多个冗余建,”该公司说。
美国联邦航空管理局(FAA)??目前正在规章制度无人机,一过程,亚马逊希望将宜早不宜迟完成。 “我们希望美国联邦航空局的规则将到位,早在某个时候在2015年,我们将准备在那个时候。”
我们已经看到在建议使用无人驾驶飞机提供商用产品的增长。一位澳大利亚的启动计划用无人机来提供教科书的客户在2014年3月,而卷饼轰炸机希望能尽快2015年下降对人们的墨西哥菜,与亚马逊的产品种类繁多,然而,***航空将是第一个这样做的在如此庞大和多样化的规模。
这听起来像是科幻小说,但鉴于贝索斯声称,300个项目第二个将来自亚马逊网络星期一下令,有可能***航无人机群将荏苒上述各地我们在不久的将来
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