Jumping in your car to grab that everyday item you’re missing could become a thing of the past soon, under Amazon’s grand plans.
Launched in 2013, Prime Air promises to deliver small household items such as electronics, beauty products and prescription medications in 30 minutes or less. People load the drones with a customer’s order, do the routine checks and keep track as it flies to its programmed destination.“Let’s say you live in an apartment complex, it makes its way to the apartment complex and deploys the package in the available area that’s been designated.Prime Air has tested several versions of its drone. Picture: Supplied
After going through several iterations, Prime Air’s MK30 drone is now online which Mr Carbon says “was designed working backwards from where we want to be in 2029”.It hasn’t all been simple getting Prime Air off the ground, with Bezos initially hoping Amazon drones would be delivering by 2018. That did not happen until 2022.