Amazon stressed that it is working on a delivery circuit and that it hopes to be able to deliver 500 million packages by drone a year by the end of this decade, even in densely populated areas, such as Arizona or Seattle..
After several years of testing, Amazon has launched its Prime Air program to deliver parcels with MK27-2 Hex drones to two locations located in the US states of California and Texas.
Amazon received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration in August of this year to be able to use these aircraft devices for these purposes in the United States, Ars Technica recalls.
This service, which is not available to all locations where the company operates, only allows the shipment of packages of a certain size and these deliveries can only be made to homes with courtyards that have sufficient space for the device to land . .
To access this service, interested parties must subscribe to this service. Then, the company will evaluate whether it is possible to deliver these parcels to their home. At the moment, Prime Air operates in the cities of Lockeford (California) and College Station (Texas), in the United States.
Specifically, for the first deliveries of the Prime Air program, the tech giant used the MK27-2, an electric drone capable of delivering packages weighing up to 1.5 kilograms to customers in less than an hour.
Drones fly to delivery locations and land in customer yards, hovering at a safe height. After releasing the package, they continue their flight.
It should be remembered that Amazon presented its new MK30 delivery drone in early November, a device that promises to be 10% lighter and 25% less noisy than its predecessor.
Unlike the MK27-2, the new model is capable of identifying distances and safely avoiding objects such as aircraft, people, pets and other obstacles that may get in the way.
At the time of its presentation, Amazon stressed that it was working on a delivery circuit and that it hoped to be able to deliver 500 million packages by drone per year by the end of this decade even in densely populated areas, such as Arizona or Seattle , even in the United States.
