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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: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday December 15 2016, @08:19PM
How about this location in my neighborhood: https://goo.gl/maps/7uSUJiQa4Sq [goo.gl] Those are apartments so, maybe yard access? Maybe not. Too many random obstacles. I'd like to see more Amazon lockers. Currently I have everything shipped to work and since I commute by car, it's easy to bring home.