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Amazon Prime Air: deliveries drone

service by Bezos on TV will be active in a few years. From storage at home in 30 minutes

A drone Amazon Prime Air

MILAN – The bellboy comes from heaven, the giant Amazon will deliver the parcel via air, right in front of the door, thanks to a small remote-controlled drone. Delivery will be guaranteed in less than 30 minutes. Science fiction? No. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and number one, has announced the futuristic project in the program on Sunday night CBS’s 60 Minutes. The elicotterini could take off within a few years.

IN HALF AN HOUR – The giant of online commerce in Serbia has great things: to deliver packages to customers will think of mini drones fed eight engines, referred to as’ Octocoper. ” The service “Prime Air” is still in the testing phase, and if the U.S. federal laws allow, will be adopted within the next four or five years. The drones company in Seattle, traveling unmanned aircraft, controlled by onboard computers, they can carry parcels weighing up to 2.5 kilograms, which now represents 86% of deliveries to Amazon. How much time? Half an hour. They can cover areas within a radius of 16 km from the stores they are prepared orders. This will cut costs and delivery times. What’s more, the advantage goes well read in terms of saving emissions. “It is very green, much better than the truck on road transport,” stressed the head of North American society.

“AMAZON ONE DAY will fall apart,” – Jeff Bezos has personally intervened to 60 Minutes to support the initiative and submit prototypes to the cameras: “Sure, I know that sounds like science fiction, but it is not.” One of the reasons for the introduction of drones is to maintain leadership in retail sales, said the 49 year old. “Companies have a short life. Amazon one day fall apart – has underlined the American entrepreneur – and I want this to happen after my death. ” A video demonstration shows the mini robots that, starting from the stores of the American retailer, transport by air the goods purchased in small yellow boxes, and deliver it to the front door of the customer’s home. The localization is done through GPS.

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EMPLOYEES AS A ROBOT – The plan requires, before being authorized, a series of safety tests, in addition to receiving clearance from the U.S. authorities aviation, the Federal Aviation Administration, FAA. For the e-commerce giant is primarily an enormous advertising, Christmas, and a change of image – for the better. These days the company was over in the storm for a service that the BBC, with extreme detail, denounced as employees in the UK were at risk of “mental and physical problems” for the excessive load stress to which they are subjected. In Germany, however, in the factories of Bad Hersfeld and Leipzig, workers are threatening to strike just below the festivities because of the “inhuman” working conditions and low wages.

PIZZA DELIVERY – The technology of unmanned aerial vehicles, in any case, it is intriguing: in the summer had made a certain sensation the video posted by the known U.S. chain Domino’s its “DomiCopter ‘, a flying drone who delivered two pizzas directly to the consumer’s home. Even in China is experimenting with drones carrier: a few months ago, the transport company in Shenzhen, the SF Express, had submitted his couriers flying drones capable of reaching even here up to a maximum of one hundred meters in height and , thanks to eight powerful propellers, can also carry large parcels.

Elmar Burchia