{"id":9308,"date":"2013-12-09T22:20:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T06:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9308"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:22:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:22:46","slug":"dhl-testing-delivery-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/dhl-testing-delivery-drones","title":{"rendered":"DHL testing delivery drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"by\">By <\/span><span class=\"author\">Danielle Elliot <\/span> <span class=\"source\">CBS News<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>German postal carrier Deutsche Post DHL is testing a drone delivery service that could deliver medical and food supplies to areas with minimal road access.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the company ran a test delivery of its so-called \u201cparcelcopter.\u201d In a flight that lasted two minutes, remote-controlled drone carried a batch of medicine from a pharmacy in the city of Bonn to the company\u2019s headquarters, just across the Rhine River.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>The test came just a week after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/amazon-unveils-futuristic-plan-delivery-by-drone\/\">announced on 60 Minutes<\/a> that his company is developing plans for drone delivery, though it still faces many technological and legal hurdles.<\/p>\n<div>In the DHL test, with two employees controlling it from the ground, the drone flew a little more than half a mile, at a height of about 165 feet.<\/div>\n<p>It is capable of carrying up to 2.6 pounds, and can autonomously navigate using GPS coordinates. The drone cost about $54,900, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are at the beginning of the research project,\u201d DHL manager Ole Nordhoff told Germany\u2019s English news service <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/20131209\/deutsche-post-completes-drone-delivery-flight\">The Local<\/a>. \u201cIt is an exciting bit of technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Danielle Elliot CBS News German postal carrier Deutsche Post DHL is testing a drone delivery service that could deliver medical and food supplies to areas with minimal road access. On Monday, the company ran a test delivery of its so-called \u201cparcelcopter.\u201d In a flight that lasted two minutes, remote-controlled drone carried a batch of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308","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=9308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47370,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308\/revisions\/47370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}