Amazon plans to 'fly' deliver packages to the customer's home using drones

The messaging service through unmanned ships (drones) What Amazon is working on will allow the package to fly to the customer's home in half an hour. A project that, according to Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of the company, could be operational in four or five years.

Those purchases made in Amazon, and whose volume does not exceed two and a half kilos,or they could be delivered to the customer's home via unmanned aerial vehicles, drones. This is what Jeff Bezos has stated, CEO and founder of the company, although he has also clarified that this would be a project that would not be operational for four or five years..

These types of packages represent the 86% of purchases made on Amazon and, although it seems like science fiction, Jeff Bezos affirms that tests are already being done and that it could become a reality.

Once the purchase has been made by the customer, The order is received in one of the 96 distribution centers that the Internet giant has around the world. Once packaged, it would be placed under the chassis of a small unmanned robot with eight propellers. (octocopter), autonomous and guided by the coordinates that have been entered into your GPS and the purchase would arrive in less than half an hour. The radius of action of these drones reaches 16 kilometers from the distribution center.

There are many advantages that this service has., called PrimerAir, but Amazon will still have to face many challenges, logistical and geographical, in addition to having the approval of the airspace safety regulator (FAA), for this experiment to become a reality.