The world’s largest online retailer Amazon has demonstrated a delivery drone, which will deliver the first packages in a few months. The fully automatic and all-electric „Prime Air“ aircraft will initially test as small household goods such as toothpaste or razor supply, the group announced yesterday (local time) at a tech conference in Las Vegas.
Amazon has been working on the drone technology for several years now, which was presented for the first time by the responsible manager Jeff Wilke at the event in the US state of Nevada in an optimized version.
First test delivery in the UK
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos had already presented in 2013 a prototype of the delivery drone. The now presented device can fly well 24 kilometers and deliver packages up to 2.3 kilograms within 30 minutes.
Amazon did not specify where the „Prime Air“ service should start. So far, it has been tested in the UK, where 2016 was the first delivery with it. A client had received a „Fire TV“ video streaming stick and a bag of popcorn within 13 minutes of submitting his order, as Bezos announced on Twitter.
