{"id":91698,"date":"2019-06-06T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/amazon-says-drone-deliveries-coming-within-months"},"modified":"2019-06-06T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:43:11","slug":"amazon-says-drone-deliveries-coming-within-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/amazon-says-drone-deliveries-coming-within-months","title":{"rendered":"Amazon says drone deliveries coming \u2018within months\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-says-drone-deliveries-coming-within-months2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon said Wednesday it expects to begin large-scale deliveries by drone in the coming months as it unveiled its newest design for its \u201cPrime Air\u201d fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Wilke, head of Amazon\u2019s consumer operations, told the company\u2019s Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics and Space conference in Las Vegas that drones would play a role in ramping up efforts to shorten delivery times for many items to just one day for Amazon Prime members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been hard at work building fully electric drones that can fly up to 15 miles (25 kilometers) and deliver packages under five pounds (2.3 kilos) to customers in less than 30 minutes,\u201d Wilke said in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-06-amazon-drones-months.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon said Wednesday it expects to begin large-scale deliveries by drone in the coming months as it unveiled its newest design for its \u201cPrime Air\u201d fleet. Jeff Wilke, head of Amazon\u2019s consumer operations, told the company\u2019s Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics and Space conference in Las Vegas that drones would play a role in ramping up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91698","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}