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1) Drone deliveries: beyond the publicity stunt
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/06/drone-deliveries
It's the delivery service you've always wanted: just place an
order using your tablet, then sit back as the system dispatches a
delivery drone, plots its flight path, guides it past obstacles and
finds a suitable landing spot near you. The Autonomous Aerial
Cargo/Utility System (AACUS) may sound like Jeff Bezos' futuristic
plan for Amazon. In fact, it has been developed by the US Office of
Naval Research for battlefield resupply missions, and it is already
here.
Amazon's proposed 'Prime Air' delivery service using small
quadrotor drones received a lot of publicity before Christmas. It's
hardly unique: a slew of companies have unveiled plans to use
drones to deliver flowers, pizza, beer, medical supplies and all
manner of other things. Most of these are publicity stunts or, like
the recent April Fool story of a Dunfermline bakery's aerial cake
deliveries, spoofs. A few, like Matternet's [...]
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