Amazon may have made drones a household word, but it may very well be Canadian marketplace SHOP.CA that makes drone delivery of ecommerce goods a reality thanks to a new partnership with Drone Delivery Canada (DDC). SHOP.CA is testing drones (unmanned aerial Read more
While researchers, shipping carriers and postal services may be thinking about drones, it seems ecommerce company Amazon may do more to make commercial and non-commercial drone flight in the U.S. a reality. Amazon Prime Air Vice President Gur Kimchi spoke Read more
Some people initially thought Amazon’s dramatic revelation to 60 Minutes that it was developing drones to deliver packages was a publicity stunt it was so unheard of at the time, but the company is spending a lot of resources on Read more
Federal authorities intend to finalize rules for the commercial use of drones within the next year, but even then, Amazon’s Prime Air delivery system will likely remain grounded. That’s because the Federal Aviation Administration is signaling that it will maintain Read more
The FAA will allow Amazon to test its drones, the agency revealed on Thursday. The Federal Aviation Administration issued an “experimental airworthiness certificate” to an Amazon Logistics, Inc. unmanned aircraft (UAS) design that the company will use for research and Read more
When Amazon first made public its plans to use drones for package delivery, the company said that the project would be on hold until federal regulators write rules for the commercial use of unmanned aircraft. Now that they have, Amazon has Read more
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a proposed framework of regulations around the use of drones, aka unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), taking ecommerce drone deliveries from Amazon or UPS a step closer to reality. In its story Sunday about Read more
Amazon is out of luck when it comes to delivering packages by unmanned drones, at least for now. Ars Technica reported on Tuesday that the FAA is prohibiting Amazon Prime Air drones: “In Monday’s (FAA) announcement, published in the Federal Register, the Read more
WASHINGTON – You might expect the founder of a startup company that makes drones to effuse about the potential for unmanned vehicles to revolutionize the way ecommerce works. Chris Anderson doesn’t see it that way. Anderson, who heads the Berkeley, Read more
Online merchants are looking at ways to get packages into the hands of customers more quickly and efficiently, and this year’s holiday-delivery fiasco demonstrates how tough the challenge will be. The well publicized problems of shipping carriers brought forth more article about Read more
