Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is known for making big
bets in the world of innovation and on Sunday night on 60 Minutes he revealed
what might be one of his biggest: products delivery by flying robot drones.
During a TV appearance in the United States, Jeff Bezos
played a video showing the tiny robotic devices, known as octocopters, which
pick up items in small yellow buckets and whiz them through the air.
“I know this looks like science fiction, it’s not, Mr. Bezos
told CBS television’s 60 Minutes show”.
“We can do half hour delivery and we can carry objects, we
think, up to 5lbs which covers 86% of the items that we deliver”
The service is called Amazon Prime Air and its salted for
rollout sometime in 2015, depending on FAA approval.
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The drone lifts off and whizzes into the air like a giant
mechanical insects to deliver the package just 30 minutes after clicking the “pay”
button on Amazon.com. Then it buzzes back into the air and returns to base.
The mini drones are
powered by environmentally friendly electric motors and can cover areas within
a 10-mile (16 kilometer) radius of fulfillment centers, thus covering a
significant portion of the population in urban areas.
Reacting to the unveiling of the Amazon branded drone, Bezos
interviewer Charlie Rose said. “I had no idea what its purpose was at first
glance… they actually look like something out of a Philip K. Dick novel”
It’s very green, it’s better than driving trucks around.” Said
Bezos.
Companies have short life spans… And Amazon will be
disrupted one day, he said.
“I would love for it to be after I’m dead”
You can watch the entire interview on the 60 Minutes
Website.
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