Although Amazon ran a Super Bowl ad for Echo, its delivery drones stole the show. The e-commerce titan’s Super Bowl spot featured a woman and a man sitting on a couch with a bowl of Doritos between them. The man is seen licking the orange cheese dust from his fingertips and returning them to the bowl for another helping. At this point, the woman throws a little side-eye his way,… Read More
from Amazon – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/05/amazon-echo-spot-primes-super-bowl-audience-for-drone-delivery-in-the-us/?ncid=rss
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… 