Amazon wants to get unmanned aerial vehicles into the everyday lives of people by turning them into delivery systems for internet shopping parcels. It’s hoping, or so Jeff Bezos would have us believe, that it can get a drone army dropping off online purchases in the US within five years. Always assuming you live really close to an Amazon warehouse. And the Federal Aviation Authority develops plans to integrate all manner of unmanned flying machines into US airspace. And you only order stuff that’s quite small so the drone can lift it. And… well, you get the picture.
Bezos didn’t get into those kind of trifling details in his interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday night, he just painted a happy picture of the many zippy wee robots that could be winging your parcel to you in just 30 minutes.
“You order something and within half an hour, you can have a drone land on your front porch, drop off a little box and off it goes,” he enthused.
And despite the logistical and legal issues, Amazon isn’t the only organisation looking into ways to use drones as cost-effective delivery methods, nifty machines that can boldly go places more easily than humans and clever solutions to various problems...
Read some of the other nonlethal things drones are or could be doing on Forbes.
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