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

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 iamjacksusername on Thursday December 15 2016, @10:21PM

    by iamjacksusername (1479) on Thursday December 15 2016, @10:21PM (#441816)

    Reminds me of Dave Barry's end of year column for 2013...

    "As the year draws to a close, hopes for peace on the Korean peninsula soar when North Korea's Kim Jong-un, in what is seen as a conciliatory gesture, sends a gift to South Korea's President Park Geun-hye. Unfortunately, the gift — a set of professional-quality barbells weighing nearly a ton — is delivered via Amazon's new “Nowitzer!” system and levels the presidential residence."

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