drone delivery

On Wednesday, Amazon was granted a patent for a shipping label that includes a built-in parachute "to enable the delivery of packages by aerial vehicles (UAVs) or other aerial vehicles". The patent, as reported by GeekWire, was filed in August...

US e-commerce giant, Amazon, was awarded a patent earlier this week for a system in which a package would be "forcefully" propelled from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and would be helped to land by tools including a parachute. The...

CB Insight's Zoe Leavitt recently discovered Amazon had filed for the patent in December 2014 for its Airborne Fulfillment Center (AFC). The online retailer had consequently, in April 2016, received the patent for its warehouse in the air. The e-commerce giant says that...

A US-based drone delivery service has completed its first month in operation, successfully sending over-the-counter medicines, hot food items and cold beverages to customers' homes using GPS-enabled autonomous flying vehicles. According to a PTI report: The company conducted regular weekend...