Amazon will use drones to deliver orders in just ... - The Associated Press

Amazon is preparing a delivery system using drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) and it will take only half an hour to reach the customer after ordering online . Jezz Bezos, founder and CEO of the American giant, the prototypes showed yesterday in program 60 Minutes CBS, and believes that within four or five longer be possible to deliver small orders through this system.

The “Amazon Prime Air” has a range of 16 kilometers away from the distribution centers that the company owns in the United States. The drones, called “octocopters”, flying directly to the customer’s home.

“are actually drones but there is no reason for that is not used as delivery vehicles,” he said during an interview with CBS. “It sounds like science fiction, but it’s not,” he said, stressing that “it is too early” to proceed with the project on the ground.

“octocopters” with electric motor, can carry objects up to two pounds, weight is about 86% of orders delivered today by Amazon. These drones moving through GPS coordinates and are not remote controlled.

“The biggest challenge is to put [in vehicles] all the security systems and we need to say, ‘This can not land on the head of someone who is walking in the street,’” said Jeff Bezos

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is not an immediate project and will not be available before 2015 so because Amazon needs authorization from the FAA, the federal government plane, which is responsible for the regulation of civil aviation in the United States.

“If you can be in four or five years? I think so. Will work and will happen. And it will be really fun, “Bezos guarantee.

Amazon has the vision to sell everything to everyone and have already started making deliveries of fresh produce and groceries in two U.S. cities (Seattle and Los Angeles). With 225 million customers worldwide, makes orders arrive via 96 distribution centers globally. The first book ordered online was sent in 1995.

The idea of ??using drones for non-military purposes is not new. In June a franchisee of Domino’s in the UK released a video where you see the “DomiCopter” to deliver a pizza. However, it is only a concept study.

The technology is also being tested in Peru in agriculture and archeology. Can help assess the growth of crops or make a cartographic analysis in minutes