{"id":29905,"date":"2016-09-07T09:47:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/mercedes-benz-and-matternet-unveil-vans-that-launch-delivery-drones"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:42:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:42:49","slug":"mercedes-benz-and-matternet-unveil-vans-that-launch-delivery-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/mercedes-benz-and-matternet-unveil-vans-that-launch-delivery-drones","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz and Matternet unveil vans that launch delivery drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mercedes-benz-and-matternet-unveil-vans-that-launch-delivery-drones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mbvans.com\/sprinter\/home\">Mercedes-Benz Vans<\/a> and drone tech startup <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mttr.net\">Matternet<\/a> have created a concept car, or as they\u2019re calling it a Vision Van, that could change the way small packages are delivered across short distances.<\/p>\n<p>The Vision Van\u2019s rooftop serves as a launch and landing pad for Matternet\u2019s new, Matternet M2 drones.<\/p>\n<p>The Matternet M2 drones, which are autonomous, can pick up and carry a package of 4.4 pounds across 12 miles of sky on a single battery charge in real world conditions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/09\/07\/mercedes-benz-and-matternet-unveil-vans-that-launch-delivery-drones\/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)&sr_share=facebook\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/09\/07\/mercedes-benz-and-matterne...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz Vans and drone tech startup Matternet have created a concept car, or as they\u2019re calling it a Vision Van, that could change the way small packages are delivered across short distances. The Vision Van\u2019s rooftop serves as a launch and landing pad for Matternet\u2019s new, Matternet M2 drones. The Matternet M2 drones, which are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29905","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60479,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29905\/revisions\/60479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}