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Fulfillment Centers to Ride Rails and Dispatch Amazon Delivery Drones

October 19, 2018October 16, 2018 theDroneInfoamazon, amazon drone delivery, Commercial Drone Applications, Drone Technology, drones, uav0 comment

Amazon aims to patent fulfillment centers that can ride the rails and dispatch Amazon Delivery Drones SOURCE : https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-aims-patent-fulfillment-centers-can-ride-rails-dispatch-drones/ If Amazon follows through on a pair of patent applications, future fulfillment centers could be transported on their rounds by trains, ships or trucks and deliver their goods with autonomous drones flying out from the tops of shipping containers. The on-demand system for package delivery is covered in two applications that were filed a year and a half ago but published just today. The inventors are principal software engineer Brian Beckman…

Top Industries Take on Private Unmanned Traffic Management System

March 12, 2018 theDroneInfoair traffic control, amazon, amazon drone delivery, boeing, faa, google, nasa, traffic management, UTM0 comment

Tackling the Unmanned Traffic Management System With drone delivery dreams soaring high and motivating quickly planned innovations, the top dogs of industry (Amazon, Boeing, GE, and Google) are taking on the developmental quagmire of an Unmanned Traffic Management system (UTM). The possible predicaments are obvious and plentiful but begin with inevitable drone crashes and manned aircraft interference. NASA on Air Traffic To tackle the basics and make their drone delivery technology a reality, these tech giants will be leaning on the broad and experienced shoulders of NASA (National Aeronautics and…