Amazon says it’s gearing up to add a community in Arizona to its list of Prime Air drone delivery zones. Later this year, customers in the West Valley region of… Read More
Amazon opened a $1.5 billion air hub in Northern Kentucky, where it plans to process millions of packages a day by the end of the year. The facility, at the… Read More
— Peter Marquez has joined Amazon Web Services as the first head of space policy. “There are many exciting things happening in the space community and this is going to… Read More
Amazon vans zipping around neighborhoods making holiday deliveries aren’t the only relatively new transportation hardware that the tech giant has put in motion. Dave Clark, Amazon’s senior vice president of… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos hopped into a front-end loader to “move some earth” as the tech giant broke ground Tuesday on a new 3-million-square-foot air cargo hub at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky… Read More
A newly published patent hints at the system that Amazon just might use to guide delivery drones to their destinations, and verify that the drone’s payloads have been dropped off… Read More
Amazon is growing its fleet of cargo aircraft with the lease of 10 additional 767-300 planes that will add capacity to its delivery network. The company has expanded its partnership… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is big on veterans, and in honor of Veterans Day, he presided over the vet-friendly christening of Valor, Amazon Air’s 40th Boeing 767 freighter. In a… Read More
Amazon has been criticized in the past for not doing enough in terms of philanthropy. But it’s going to be tough to miss its latest charitable push. During an event… Read More
For an earlier generation, one of the sweetest sounds of summer was the music coming from an ice-cream truck. For the next generation, will it be the tune of a… Read More
Seven years after Jeff Bezos had the idea of putting an airbag on your smartphone, Amazon’s inventors have kicked it up a notch by patenting a drone-mounted system that inflates… Read More
Most inventors look for ways to make their machines more robust, but Amazon has won a patent for delivery drones that fall apart more easily. Why? For safety reasons. The… Read More
Amazon’s Prime Air drone made its first package delivery in December, in England, but regular folks haven’t seen it in action out in the open here in the States. Until today.… Read More
Amazon has sought patents for hitchhiking drones, mini-drones that can sit on shoulders, drones that assemble themselves like Lego toys – and now drones that flip their wings to go from vertical… Read More
A patchwork of state laws governing drone operations would pose a “real problem” for aerial delivery systems like the one that Amazon is developing, one of the executives in charge… Read More
If there are any Robin Hoods out there who are thinking about shooting down drones while they’re making deliveries, Amazon has a patented plan to stop you. The patent, filed… Read More
In the race to make routine commercial deliveries via drone, Flirtey is going where Amazon hasn’t yet ventured: the United States. Today, the three-year-old Nevada-based startup reported that its autonomous drones made… Read More
A group of pilots contracted to deliver packages for Amazon’s Prime Air service launched a new website questioning whether the airlines Amazon is working with will be able to live up… Read More
Amazon’s multimillion-dollar effort to deliver goods via drone currently has just two customers in the English countryside, but this could well be the way a multibillion-dollar industry gets started. The current… Read More
Amazon said this morning that it completed its first-ever package delivery from a Prime Air drone to a customer in Cambridge, England, on Dec. 7 — a major milestone for the company… Read More
Amazon announced Monday it is partnering with the United Kingdom to expand testing for its Prime Air drone delivery service. Amazon is working with the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority to… Read More
Despite plenty of skepticism surrounding drone delivery, Google continues to press on with its own version, called Project Wing. The company has received a patent for a wheel-mounted “delivery receptacle” that… Read More
How much will it cost to get a 30-minute drone delivery from Amazon Prime Air? A newly published interview with Amazon executive Paul Misener suggests that the pricing question and… Read More
The hybrid drone design that Amazon unveiled over the weekend may be only one of several under consideration for delivering packages in 30 minutes or less, but it’s a doozy:… Read More
Amazon today released new photos and a video showing off a redesigned version of its delivery drone. It’s been almost exactly two years since Amazon first announced the “Amazon Prime Air” project… Read More
Can Amazon.com safely deliver packages via unmanned aerial vehicles? That’s the big question facing the online retailer as it embarks on an ambitious effort to create a new aerial fleet… Read More
Just a few months ago, the FAA was only allowing a dozen or so companies to fly drones in the U.S. Now those numbers have swelled to more than 500.… Read More
While it continues to work towards getting its drones off the ground in the U.S., Amazon is taking a jump across the pond to test out its Prime Air service.… Read More
