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Amazon plans to start drone deliveries in the UK and Italy next year
Amazon plans to expand its drone delivery program to the UK, Italy and a third US location in 2024. It will also start using an improved drone that can fly twice as far as previous models.
Kris Holt10.18.2023
Amazon now offers drone deliveries for prescription medications in Texas
Amazon announced on Wednesday that customers in College Station, TX can now get prescription medications delivered by drone in less than an hour.
Will Shanklin10.18.2023
Amazon's drones have reportedly delivered to fewer houses than there are words in this headline
FAA restrictions are reportedly making it difficult for Amazon to deliver packages by drone.
Kris Holt02.02.2023
Amazon's drone delivery division was reportedly hit hard by layoffs
Amazon's drone delivery program has seemingly been hit hard by the company's mass layoffs. Around half of the employees at an Oregon test site were let go, CNBC reports, as were workers in the design, maintenance, systems engineering and flight operations teams.
Kris Holt01.20.2023
Amazon's redesigned Prime Air delivery drone can fly farther than its predecessor
Amazon has introduced its next-gen delivery drone, the MK30, which is lighter than its predecessor and can fly longer distances.
Mariella Moon11.11.2022
Amazon's Prime Air drones will soon make deliveries in Texas
They'll take flight in College Station, the home of Texas A&M University's main campus.
Kris Holt07.15.2022Amazon's Prime Air service will begin making drone deliveries in California this year
Starting later this year, Amazon will begin making drone deliveries in Lockeford, California.
Igor Bonifacic06.13.2022
Amazon reduces the size of its delivery drone team
The company says the layoffs are part of a reorganization of the project.
Daniel Cooper11.20.2020
Amazon's Prime Air can officially begin drone delivery trials in the US
Amazon is one step closer to offering commercial drone deliveries.
Christine Fisher08.31.2020
Amazon is mass-producing face shields to sell to frontline workers
Amazon has donated nearly 10,000 face shields, and over the next few weeks, it plans to make hundreds of thousands available at-cost on Amazon.com.
Christine Fisher05.14.2020
Amazon's new delivery drone is a helicopter-airplane hybrid
Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery still isn't a practical reality, but that isn't stopping the company from iterating on its robotic flyer's design. The internet retailer has unveiled a next-generation electric drone that tackles some of the challenges the autonomous courier faces. It's now a "hybrid design" that can take off and land vertically like a typical hexacopter drone, but has aerodynamics (and thus efficiency) more like that of a fixed-wing aircraft. More importantly, it's safer -- and we're not just talking about the protective shroud that doubles as wings.
Jon Fingas06.05.2019
Yes, Amazon's delivery drones are real (maybe)
If you've been dreaming of drone-delivered packages since Amazon announced Prime Air last year -- apparently your dreams are getting a little closer to reality. In its 2013 letter to shareholders published today, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos not only confirms the delivery drone's existence but also addresses its production. In what still may be the greatest retail troll of all time, Bezos says "The Prime Air team is already flight testing our 5th and 6th generation aerial vehicles, and we are in the design phase on generations 7 and 8." All we want to know is what version Amazon will have to get to before we can start placing orders.
Emily Price04.10.2014