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Prime Air

Amazon pauses drone deliveries for software changes; Oregon test crash ‘not the primary reason’

Amazon confirmed that it voluntarily paused its Prime Air drone deliveries in Texas and Arizona, but downplayed the role of… Read More

Amazon MK30 delivery drone

Amazon plans drone deliveries in Arizona while shutting down drones in California

Amazon says it’s gearing up to add a community in Arizona to its list of Prime Air drone delivery zones.… Read More

Amazon opens $1.5B Northern Kentucky air hub, fueling questions about its cargo ambitions

Amazon opened a $1.5 billion air hub in Northern Kentucky, where it plans to process millions of packages a day… Read More

Tech Moves: AWS names first head of space policy; WeWork Labs leader joins Alexa Fund; Moz co-founder leaves board

— Peter Marquez has joined Amazon Web Services as the first head of space policy. “There are many exciting things… Read More

By land and by air, Amazon delivery hardware takes on a new look in truck and plane photos

Amazon vans zipping around neighborhoods making holiday deliveries aren’t the only relatively new transportation hardware that the tech giant has… Read More

Jeff Bezos moves some earth to break ground on new $1.5B Amazon Prime Air hub near Cincinnati

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos hopped into a front-end loader to “move some earth” as the tech giant broke ground Tuesday… Read More

Amazon drone delivery

How do you direct a drone to drop off your purchases? Amazon has a patent for that

A newly published patent hints at the system that Amazon just might use to guide delivery drones to their destinations,… Read More

Amazon Air leases another 10 large jets, adding capacity to its growing delivery network

Amazon is growing its fleet of cargo aircraft with the lease of 10 additional 767-300 planes that will add capacity… Read More

Jeff Bezos unveils Amazon Prime Air’s flying tribute to veterans: Valor

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is big on veterans, and in honor of Veterans Day, he presided over the vet-friendly christening… Read More

Amazon enlists Prime Air jet in cancer fight, aiming to take charitable profile to new heights

Amazon has been criticized in the past for not doing enough in terms of philanthropy. But it’s going to be… Read More

Signaling drone

Amazon patent covers how to signal a delivery drone (and how it signals back)

For an earlier generation, one of the sweetest sounds of summer was the music coming from an ice-cream truck. For… Read More

Airbag-protected drone delivery

Protect your Amazon drone-delivered package? There’s an APP airbag for that

Seven years after Jeff Bezos had the idea of putting an airbag on your smartphone, Amazon’s inventors have kicked it… Read More

Self-destruct drone

Why Amazon patented a delivery drone that’s designed to self-destruct

Most inventors look for ways to make their machines more robust, but Amazon has won a patent for delivery drones… Read More

Amazon delivery drone

Amazon Prime Air delivery drone drops off sunscreen during semi-public U.S. debut

Amazon’s Prime Air drone made its first package delivery in December, in England, but regular folks haven’t seen it in action… Read More

Amazon foldable-wing drone

Amazon’s latest drone patent features foldable wings for flippable flight

Amazon has sought patents for hitchhiking drones, mini-drones that can sit on shoulders, drones that assemble themselves like Lego toys – and… Read More

Amazon exec Paul Misener warns that state laws could bog down drone deliveries

A patchwork of state laws governing drone operations would pose a “real problem” for aerial delivery systems like the one… Read More

Amazon drone attack

Amazon patents system to defend drones against hackers, jammers … and arrows

If there are any Robin Hoods out there who are thinking about shooting down drones while they’re making deliveries, Amazon… Read More

Flirtey drone

Flirtey says its drones are making routine deliveries for 7-Eleven in Nevada

In the race to make routine commercial deliveries via drone, Flirtey is going where Amazon hasn’t yet ventured: the United States.… Read More

Amazon Prime Air pilots say short-staffing may cause last-minute holiday deliveries to be late

A group of pilots contracted to deliver packages for Amazon’s Prime Air service launched a new website questioning whether the… Read More

Drone landing in England

Amazon drone deliveries in England show how small steps add up to a big deal

Amazon’s multimillion-dollar effort to deliver goods via drone currently has just two customers in the English countryside, but this could well… Read More

Video: Amazon makes first Prime Air drone package delivery, offers glimpse of new design

Amazon said this morning that it completed its first-ever package delivery from a Prime Air drone to a customer in Cambridge, England,… Read More

Amazon to expand drone delivery tests in U.K., partnering with government, after U.S. setbacks

Amazon announced Monday it is partnering with the United Kingdom to expand testing for its Prime Air drone delivery service.… Read More

Google patents secure rolling box to receive packages from drones

Despite plenty of skepticism surrounding drone delivery, Google continues to press on with its own version, called Project Wing. The company… Read More

Amazon delivery drone

Amazon Prime Air’s drone plan still leaves key questions unanswered

How much will it cost to get a 30-minute drone delivery from Amazon Prime Air? A newly published interview with… Read More

Amazon’s hybrid Prime Air drone breaks new ground, but questions are still up in the air

The hybrid drone design that Amazon unveiled over the weekend may be only one of several under consideration for delivering… Read More

Amazon delivery drone

Amazon reveals new delivery drone design with range of 15 miles

Amazon today released new photos and a video showing off a redesigned version of its delivery drone. It’s been almost… Read More

Amazon’s plan for safely flying drones: Designated airspace, smart automation to avoid seagulls

Can Amazon.com safely deliver packages via unmanned aerial vehicles? That’s the big question facing the online retailer as it embarks… Read More

Amazon Prime Air drone

All of these companies in Washington, including Amazon, have permission to fly drones

Just a few months ago, the FAA was only allowing a dozen or so companies to fly drones in the… Read More

Amazon turns to UK for flight testing of its drones

While it continues to work towards getting its drones off the ground in the U.S., Amazon is taking a jump… Read More

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