Amazon releases video showcasing unmanned delivery drones
Amazon has unveiled what its unmanned drones for package delivery would look like with a video launched on Sunday on the prototype of technology it announced two years ago. The promotional clip, narrated by television show host Jeremy Clarkson, shows a family receiving in about 30 minutes replacement soccer shoes for the one chewed up by its dog.
"In time, there will be a whole family of Amazon drones. Different designs for different environments," Clarkson says.
The video shows the box containing the shoes ordered by the family fitting seamlessly into the body of the drone.
It then rises vertically, in helicopter style, for nearly 400 feet, according to Clarkson, after which it assumes a horizontal orientation, flying like an airplane.
Clarkson said the drone in the clip could fly for 15 miles (24 kms).
It was equipped with what he called "sense-and-avoid technology" to sense, then avoid, obstacles in its path.
The video shows the drone approaching its targeted landing spot, dropping the package, then taking off again, presumably to return where it came from.
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