Amazon’s plans to use autonomous drones for package delivery took a big step forward with FAA approval to begin testing.
Amazon Prime Air Drone Gets Upgrade, More Models To Come
It will be two years ago this week that Amazon first unveiled Prime Air, its ambitions drone-based package delivery initiative. The company is now showing off a new version. Here’s the latest promo video showing off the new hybrid design.…
Amazon Wants ‘High-Speed’ Zone for Its Prime Air Delivery Drones, 200 Feet Up
Drones are coming. Commercial drones, that is. In so many years, the sky will be filled with small, unmanned aircraft delivering you pizzas. And new iPhones. That’s been Amazon’s vision for years now, as the company tries to get its…
Consumers Really Want Drone Delivery, Are Willing To Pay For It
Earlier, we looked at a report from Walker Sands, which looks at consumers’ online shopping habits, and bodes well for Amazon’s new Home Services offering. In a separate section of the report that we didn’t get into, they look at…
Amazon Drones Get FAA Go-ahead for Testing, but Don’t Get Too Excited
The Federal Aviation Administration has granted Amazon an “experimental airworthiness certificate” that allows the company to begin research and training on its fleet of delivery drones, what the company calls Amazon Prime Air. Unfortunately for Amazon, the certificate comes with…
Amazon Reportedly Ramping Up Its Drone Efforts
It was just under a year ago that Amazon revealed Amazon Prime Air, its ambitious project that would see the online retail giant delivering packages to customers by drones. The announcement was met with a great deal of skepticism (for…
Project Wing: Here Come Google’s Delivery Drones
Late last year, Amazon introduced Amazon Prime Air, its ambitious effort to bring a delivery-by-drone experience to customers. I don’t suppose it should come as much of a surprise that Google is also working on delivery drones. Perhaps a little…
Amazon Asks FAA for Drone Exemption
Amazon is making strides in the development of Amazon Prime Air, the company’s oft-parodied but completely serious drone delivery service. Their newest delivery drones (currently ninth-gen) can travel over 50 mph and can carry five-pound packages – which covers 86…
Amazon Is Already Working On Its 7th And 8th-Generation Drones
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has penned a new letter to shareholders (via Business Insider) addressing numerous parts of the business. Among these many parts is a little thing called Amazon Prime Air. Maybe you’ve heard of it. Perhaps you’re more…
Here’s Netflix’s Answer To Amazon’s Drones
It seems a little late for a parody of Amazon’s drone video from December, but Netflix has one out. It was uploaded a week ago by Netflix’s Paul Johnson (for some reason not yet on the company’s official YouTube channel),…
Groupon’s Answer To Amazon’s Drones: Delivery Catapults
Groupon has a new internal video it has passed along to us, which discusses the company’s answer to Amazon Prime Air. “While other companies drone on about their risky, experimental new methods of package delivery, only Groupon is looking forward…by…
Is Amazon’s Drone Delivery a ‘Long-Term Fantasy’?
Although Amazon claims that one day unmanned delivery drones will be “as normal as mail trucks,” one high-profile CEO isn’t really buying into it yet. eBay CEO John Donahoe is skeptical, and thinks that delivery drones are a “long-term fantasy.”…
UPS Is Reportedly Testing Drones Too
You’ve no doubt heard all about Amazon’s drones by now. Just in case you haven’t, the company introduced an ambitious new project called Amazon Prime Air, which delivers goods to people’s homes via drone. As soon as the FAA sets…
Will Amazon’s Drones Be As Normal As Mail Trucks?
Are you ready for a future in which unmanned drones come from the sky to deliver you products you ordered less than a half hour ago? I hope so, because that future is very close. At least Amazon hopes it…
Amazon Prime Air Gets The NMA Treatment
Over the weekend, Amazon surprised just about everybody with its announcement of Amazon Prime Air. For those just joining us, it’s a new project at Amazon R&D that seeks to deliver packages to customers via drones. The hope is that…