Amazon Prime Air — a future delivery system from Amazon designed to safely get packages to customers in 30 minutes or less using small unmanned aerial vehicles, also called drones. Prime Air has great potential to enhance the services we already provide to millions of customers by providing rapid parcel delivery that will also increase the overall safety and efficiency of the transportation system. Putting Prime Air into service will take some time, but we will deploy when we have the regulatory support needed to realize our vision.
Amazon Prime Air: How it Works
It is a future service that will deliver packages up to five pounds in 30 minutes or less using small drones. Flying under 400 feet and weighing less than 55 pounds, Prime Air vehicles will take advantage of sophisticated “sense and avoid” technology, as well as a high degree of automation, to safely operate beyond the line of sight to distances of 10 miles or more.
What will the Prime Air delivery vehicles look like?
They are testing many different vehicle designs and delivery mechanisms to discover how best to deliver packages in a variety of environments. Amazon have more than a dozen prototypes that They’ve developed in their research and development labs. The look and characteristics of the vehicles will evolve over time.
Amazon will deploy when and where we have the regulatory support needed to safely realize our vision.They’re excited about this technology and one day using it to deliver packages to customers around the world in 30 minutes or less.
