Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Amazon patents show flying warehouses that send delivery drones to your door

Amazon's vision for drone delivery includes large airborne fulfillment centers and shuttles. We’ve known about Amazon’s drone delivery ambitions since 2013.  But patent filings from Amazon reveal more details about how the e-commerce titan could make drone deliveries work at scale, namely through “airborne fulfillment centers.” Yes, that’s a warehouse in a zeppelin. The airborne fulfillment centers, or AFCs, would be stocked with a certain amount of… Read More

from Amazon – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/28/amazon-patents-show-flying-warehouses-that-send-delivery-drones-to-your-door/?ncid=rss

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