{"id":30445,"date":"2016-09-24T02:47:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T09:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/ups-testing-drones-for-use-in-its-package-delivery-system"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:13:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:13:51","slug":"ups-testing-drones-for-use-in-its-package-delivery-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/ups-testing-drones-for-use-in-its-package-delivery-system","title":{"rendered":"UPS testing drones for use in its package delivery system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ups-testing-drones-for-use-in-its-package-delivery-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s largest package delivery companies is stepping up efforts to integrate drones into its system.<\/p>\n<p>UPS has partnered with robot-maker CyPhy Works to test the use of drones to make commercial deliveries to remote or difficult-to-access locations.<\/p>\n<p>The companies began testing the drones on Thursday, when they launched one from the seaside town of Marblehead. The drone flew on a programmed route for 3 miles over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver an inhaler at Children\u2019s Island.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/bluesky\/technology\/ct-ups-delivery-drones-20160923-story.html\">http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/bluesky\/technology\/ct-ups-deli...story.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s largest package delivery companies is stepping up efforts to integrate drones into its system. UPS has partnered with robot-maker CyPhy Works to test the use of drones to make commercial deliveries to remote or difficult-to-access locations. The companies began testing the drones on Thursday, when they launched one from the seaside [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30445","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\/30445","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66169,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30445\/revisions\/66169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}