Founder and CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has announced a game-changing service in the works: a delivery service carried out by automated, flying drones.
The innovative service, to be called ‘Amazon Prime Air’, features product delivery by actual flying machines—the ‘octocopter’ drones pick up packages directly from the warehouse, and fly out to deliver them.
“I know this looks like science fiction, but it’s not,” said Bezos. Each drone can deliver a five-pound package in about half-an-hour, directly to the recipient’s doorstep.
The drones are powered by electricity, and are a greener alternative to driving trucks. “You give them coordinates and which GPS locations to fly to, and they take off and fly,” said Bezos, who is optimistic about finalizing this project by 2015.