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Amazon Prime Air

  • A diagram of the proposed system, featuring an aerial fulfillment center (302), its drones (312) and a shuttle (350)
    Drones
    Amazon floats the idea of drone-dropping airships
    ​When it comes to delivery-by-drone, one of the main limiting factors is battery life. Well, a recently-unearthed patent filed by Amazon addresses that issue. It proposes using airships as "airborne fulfillment centers" that would drop cargo-carrying drones toward the buildings below.
  • The drones being used for the Amazon Prime Air UK trial are electrically powered, fully autonomous and guided by GPS
    Drones
    It's take-off for Amazon's drone delivery service
    Amazon has made its first-ever delivery to a customer using a drone. Amazon Prime Air, which was first announced in 2013 and for which drones ​have been tested in Canada and the US, is now being trialled in Cambridge, UK, where the first delivery was made on December 7th and took just 13 minutes.
  • Amazon's answer to safely implementing commercial drones is to allocate them dedicated airspace under 500 ft
    Drones
    Amazon makes its case for dedicated drone highways in the sky
    By setting aside a low-altitude chunk of sky and splitting it into high-speed and low-speed droneways, Amazon believes that the needs of the fast-growing drone industry can be accommodated without bringing all manner of things crashing to the ground.