It’s a bird. This is an airplane. This is Amazon’s delivery drone.online market Delivery Road to Heaven Gloomy Still full speed ahead: Texas customers can now Receive your medications from Amazon via drone.
Amazon Announced A new prescription delivery service is available for Amazon Pharmacy customers on Wednesday. The Prime Air offer is currently only available to customers in College Station, Texas, and the drones are capable of delivering medications in less than an hour after users click to order. Amazon says it offers 500 different types of medications to treat conditions such as flu, pneumonia and asthma. The medications will be packaged by one of the company’s pharmacists and collected by drone.
“Our drones fly over traffic, eliminating the extra time customers’ packages might spend in transit on the road,” said Director Calsee Hendrickson. Product and project management for Prime Air. “That’s the beauty of drone delivery, and pharmaceuticals are the number one thing our customers say they want delivered quickly via drone, too. “Speed and convenience are top desires for health purchases. “
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The drone will operate at an altitude of 130 to 400 feet above the ground and avoid common obstacles such as power lines and people using the built-in software. The drone will also host an onboard neural network that will attempt to identify objects and features through the camera. It will descend to the delivery mark and release the payload before taking off back to the Amazon fulfillment center.
2020, FAA grants authorization to Amazon Start using drones as part of your company’s delivery fleet. Amazon must provide the government with evidence that its drones can safely deliver packages, which involves a mountain of paperwork including manuals, maintenance documents and flight plans.
However, the road to listing was full of ups and downs. A Prime Air manager accuses the company of firing him after he expressed concerns about drone delivery plans. An Amazon spokesperson refuted the claims in an email to Gizmodo, saying: “These accusations are false and we look forward to proving them in court.”
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