Drone News: Amazon Medical Deliveries, Aloft Wins Challenge, Drone Equipped With AI to Fight Fires
First up this week is Amazon, who has announce they will start delivering medicine in College Station, Texas. Prime air aims to transport medicine to homes within 60 minutes of ordering, and includes over 500 medications for the flue, asthma, and pneumonia. Amazon hopes to sameday delivery over 500 million packages a year, and recently we’ve seen a number of lay-offs suggesting their drone program was dying. We’ll have to wait and see if this is a turn around or a last-ditch effort to make the program a success. Next up this week is Aloft, who won the GENIUS NY challenge for innovation. The…
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