{"id":1008,"date":"2019-12-13T02:18:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T02:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/2019\/12\/13\/amazon-will-make-deliveries-by-drone-within-months\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T02:18:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T02:18:29","slug":"amazon-will-make-deliveries-by-drone-within-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/2019\/12\/13\/amazon-will-make-deliveries-by-drone-within-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon will make deliveries by drone &#8216;within months&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">A<\/span>mazon has unveiled a new autonomous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/drones-consumer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drone<\/a> which it says will be delivering parcels to customers within months, as it doubles down on efforts to roll out the technology commercially.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At Amazon&#8217;s re:MARS conference in Las Vegas, the company said the drone would be able to travel &#8220;up to 15 miles and deliver packages under five pounds to customers in less than 30 minutes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The new hybrid drone will have two modes &#8212; airplane and vertical mode &#8212; and will be able to better detect wires and humans than earlier models.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it was using visual, thermal and ultrasonic sensors as part of its &#8220;sense and avoid system&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Wilke, chief executive of Amazon Worldwide Consumer, said &#8220;a safe&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\twindow.clientlibs.js.twitter_js = {\n\t\t\ttest: \"document.querySelectorAll && document.querySelectorAll('.twitter-follow-button, .twitter-tweet, .twitter-timeline').length === 0\",\n\t\t\tload: [\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"]\n\t\t};\n\t\t<!-- \/* We cannot compile this JS into our clientLibs due to syntax errors in the Ooyala vendor files and our version of YUI compressor *\/ -->\n\t\twindow.clientlibs.js.ooyala_core = {\n\t\t\ttest: true,\n\t\t\tload: [\"\/etc\/designs\/telegraph\/core\/clientlibs\/core\/vendor\/ooyala\/ooyala-player.min.js\", \"https:\/\/sb.scorecardresearch.com\/c2\/plugins\/streamingtag_plugin_ooyalav4.js\"]\n\t\t};\n\t\twindow.clientlibs.js.facebook_sdk = {\n\t\t\ttest: \"document.querySelectorAll && document.querySelectorAll('.fb-page').length === 0\",\n\t\t\tload: [\"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js\"]\n\t\t};\n\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2019\/06\/05\/amazon-will-make-deliveries-drone-within-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Amazon has unveiled a new autonomous drone which it says will be delivering parcels to customers within months, as it doubles down on efforts to roll out the technology commercially.\u00a0 At Amazon&#8217;s re:MARS conference in Las Vegas, the company said the drone would be able to travel &#8220;up to 15 miles and deliver packages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-robotics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/e928cfdc7rs.exactdn.com\/info\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Amazon-will-make-deliveries-by-drone-within-months.jpg?strip=all","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2TFCd-gg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}