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Amazon Reports First Ever Successful Autonomous Drone Delivery

posted by martyb on Thursday December 15 2016, @04:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the zoom-zoom! dept.

GreatAuntAnesthesia writes:

According to The Guardian, Amazon has made real drone deliveries to real customers in Cambridge, UK. At present the "Prime Air" service is only available to two Amazon Prime customers with large gardens who happen to live close to Amazon's UK depot, but they hope to extend the service to dozens more in the coming months.

Apparently the drone was fully autonomous, with no human operator, and the time from placing an order to delivery was just 13 minutes. A video of the delivery can be found in the linked article.

Is this the future?

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Thursday December 15 2016, @05:53PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Thursday December 15 2016, @05:53PM (#441697)

    Or they could just be starting with the easiest targets. It could be either, so I apologize if my far-out theory is incorrect.

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