Amazon's drone delivery revealed amazing content such as "it can be picked up at your location"

ByNick Dawson

Amazon delivers packages using drone "Amazon Prime AirSince announcing it in 2013, we have been carrying out test flights in Canada and the UK, and in the United States in March 2015Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) has successfully obtained permission for the test flight of Drone. The idea of ​​delivering goods within 30 minutes that Amazon claims to be "not SF" has steadily been planned for realization, and further details are obvious from the contents of the patent application of Delivery Don forn submitted by Amazon became.

Amazon details drone delivery plans - BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32653269


Amazon's drones revealed in patent (Wired UK)
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/08/amazon-drone-patent


The contents of the patent application submitted by Amazon include the sample page of the order form by the drone delivery system and the details of the real drones used for delivery. Below is the input form when ordering with drone delivery from the web browser, you can see that a map is displayed showing the delivery point can be specified on the lower side of the screen. Users can receive not only fixed places such as home, but also to pick up luggage anywhere by specifying the current location or entering the desired address. A mobile terminal such as a smartphone is used to specify the current location.


The drone used for delivery has been applied in several sizes, and it can be used according to the size of the ordered item. All drones are equipped with a set of sensors such as cameras and infrared, and are planned to be used for checking the flight path and finding the landing point. However, in fact it did not land on the ground,Pass the baggage while hoveringIt is seen. In addition, there are concerns about mid-air collisions due to the delivery of multiple drone, but it states that weather information and traffic information are mutually communicated during flight, and secure route can be secured.


According to Wired UK, FAA has issued flight permission to Amazon's delivery drones as 'helicopter for agricultural chemical spraying' which is used on the farm in the first week of May, and he approved a test flight for the press. If the test flight succeeds successfully, "Drone delivery system that can get the goods within 30 minutes" will advance one step further toward realization.