December 2, 2013Amazon reveals Prime Air drone capable of 30 minute deliveries

According to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the drones will deliver packages to customers within 30 minutes of ordering

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As early as 2015, your Amazon purchases could be dropped at your door within 30 minutes courtesy of unmanned aerial drones. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed plans for the delivery service Prime Air (an extension of Amazon Prime which guarantees two-day shipping) in a 60 Minutes interview on Sunday night.

The service would ship orders under five pounds (2.3 kg) after they are packed into small plastic containers and then scooped up by Amazon's custom-built "octocopter." The drone then delivers the package to customers within a 10 mile (16 km) radius of Amazon's fulfillment centers.

Clearly the company will need to jump through various hoops to get the service off the ground, with public safety being a primary concern. "Safety will be our top priority, and our vehicles will be built with multiple redundancies designed to commercial aviation standards," the company says.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is currently working on rules and regulations for unmanned aerial vehicles, a process which Amazon hopes will be completed sooner rather than later. "We hope the FAA's rules will be in place as early as sometime in 2015. We will be ready at that time."

We have seen a rise in proposals for the use of drones to deliver commercial products. One Australian startup plans to use drones to deliver school textbooks to customers in March 2014, while The Burrito Bomber hopes to be dropping Mexican cuisine on people as soon as 2015. With Amazon's product range, however, Prime Air would be the first to do so on such a large and diverse scale.

It may sound like science fiction, but given that Bezos claims that 300 items per second will be ordered from Amazon on Cyber Monday, it is possible that flocks of Prime Air drones will be zipping around above us in the very near future.

See the drone during a test flight in the video below.

Source: Amazon

亞馬遜實(shí)現(xiàn)用無人機(jī)送包裹 12月2日，2013Amazon揭示***空中無人機(jī)能夠30分鐘deliveries

據(jù)亞馬遜CEO杰夫·貝佐斯，無人機(jī)將在訂貨

圖片廊30分鐘內(nèi)投遞包裹給客戶（2圖像）

早在2015年，你的亞馬遜購物，可以在你的門在30分鐘內(nèi)禮貌無人機(jī)靶機(jī)下降。亞馬遜CEO杰夫·貝佐斯透露，計(jì)劃的送貨服務(wù)首相航（亞馬遜的擴(kuò)展，從而保證兩天運(yùn)費(fèi)）在上周日晚間的一次60分鐘的采訪。

下5磅（2.3千克）后，他們將船訂單服務(wù)被包裝成小塑料容器，然后舀起由亞馬遜定制“octocopter?！睙o人機(jī)然后傳送該包為客戶亞馬遜的物流中心有10英哩（16公里）的范圍內(nèi)。

顯然，公司需要通過各種鐵圈跳獲得服務(wù)離地面，以公眾安全是首要關(guān)注的問題。 “安全將是我們的重中之重，我們的車輛將與設(shè)計(jì)，商業(yè)航空標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的多個(gè)冗余建，”該公司說。

美國聯(lián)邦航空管理局（FAA）??目前正在規(guī)章制度無人機(jī)，一過程，亞馬遜希望將宜早不宜遲完成。 “我們希望美國聯(lián)邦航空局的規(guī)則將到位，早在某個(gè)時(shí)候在2015年，我們將準(zhǔn)備在那個(gè)時(shí)候。”

我們已經(jīng)看到在建議使用無人駕駛飛機(jī)提供商用產(chǎn)品的增長(zhǎng)。一位澳大利亞的啟動(dòng)計(jì)劃用無人機(jī)來提供教科書的客戶在2014年3月，而卷餅轟炸機(jī)希望能盡快2015年下降對(duì)人們的墨西哥菜，與亞馬遜的產(chǎn)品種類繁多，然而，***航空將是第一個(gè)這樣做的在如此龐大和多樣化的規(guī)模。

這聽起來像是科幻小說，但鑒于貝索斯聲稱，300個(gè)項(xiàng)目第二個(gè)將來自亞馬遜網(wǎng)絡(luò)星期一下令，有可能***航無人機(jī)群將荏苒上述各地我們?cè)诓痪玫膶?/p>

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源試飛見無人機(jī)：亞馬遜