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posted by martyb on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the drones-going-postal-doesn't-sound-too-good dept.

The Guardian is reporting that the Swiss postal service has started testing delivery of parcels by autonomous drones.

"The drone has an extremely light construction and is capable of transporting loads of up to one kilo over more than 10 kilometres with a single battery charge," Swiss Post said in a statement.

Swiss Post see drones being in commercial use in about 5 years' time if the trials prove successful. Could this set a precedent for delivery-by-drone elsewhere in the world despite other proposed services (e.g. Amazon's) facing stiff regulation?

Have any Soylentils in Switzerland been on the receiving end of one of these deliveries or seen a drone going about its business?


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  • (Score: 2) by SubiculumHammer on Thursday July 09 2015, @05:34AM

    by SubiculumHammer (5191) on Thursday July 09 2015, @05:34AM (#206812)

    BUT. better Youtube video

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  • (Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday July 18 2015, @05:13PM

    by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 18 2015, @05:13PM (#210821) Journal

    Warning! The following videos are not suitable for people against cruelty to soda!

    It's not real (nor is he Russian) but the well made “Prototype Quadrotor with Machine Gun!” [youtube.com] comes close :)

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