{"id":10241,"date":"2014-02-25T13:26:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T21:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10241"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:16:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:16:57","slug":"drones-to-deliver-government-docs-in-the-united-arab-emirates-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/drones-to-deliver-government-docs-in-the-united-arab-emirates-next-year","title":{"rendered":"Drones to Deliver Government Docs in the United Arab Emirates Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Remember when Jeff Bezos said Amazon would <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2013\/12\/03\/amazon-drones-could-deliver-orders-in-half-an-hour-but-feds-need-to-allow-it\/\">deliver packages<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> using drones at some point in the next few years? Bezos and Amazon may be beat to the punch by a government in the Middle East. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/uae\/government\/million-dollar-contest-launched-to-invent-drones-for-uae-government-services\">million dollar contest<\/a> to develop and implement a fleet of delivery drones within a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Competitors will design drones to deliver government documents. The drone\u2019s cargo compartment would be secured biometrically\u2014requiring a finger print or retina scan to release the paperwork inside. The UAE plans to announce a winner in May, and after six months of testing in the dust and heat, begin regular service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/02\/25\/drones-to-deliver-government-docs-in-the-united-arab-emirates-next-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singularity Hub Remember when Jeff Bezos said Amazon would deliver packages using drones at some point in the next few years? Bezos and Amazon may be beat to the punch by a government in the Middle East. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently launched a million dollar contest to develop and implement [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47213,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241\/revisions\/47213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}