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An Amazon drone delivers two packages. We are still waiting for the next ones

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On December 14, 2016 the future arrived all glittering, but then he must have realized that he was early and we are still there waiting for it: that day Amazon has released a video with the first delivery made by a drone a few days before. Nothing special, actually. It had happened for two UK customers with huge gardens to land in and very close to the departure depot. Thirteen minutes of flight to deliver two Amazon products, the stick to watch streaming TV and the voice assistant (plus a box of popcorn). Lightweight stuff.

Delivery carried out by an unmanned drone, of course, an octocopter no different than that Jeff Bezos had shown on tv 3 years earlier in the program 60 Minutes, with the presenter exclaiming “my God!” and Bezos unveiling the plan and saying that by 2015 it was possible to do it, “although maybe I’m too optimistic.” And he had been optimistic indeed. 2015 had begun in secret test flights in the Cambridge area in the UK, where the government had given the green light to tests but only in the countryside. And anyway, that first flight in December 2016 seemed like the beginning, it seemed that the drones were ready to invade our cities. “It will happen, it will work and it will be a lot of fun” Bezos said on TV in 2013 amid general skepticism. And his tweet of December 14 seemed to tell us: since I was right? But no, it turned out to be much more complicated than expected, and every now and then an article comes out asking: where did Amazon’s drones go?

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Meanwhile, last August they received the green light to American civil aviation and the Biden administration said it was in favor of developing a support infrastructure (drones reduce carbon dioxide emissions of the industry) and an Alphabet (Google) company called Wing has brought the service to a sparsely populated area of ​​Australia with good results and may soon become active in Finland. And even Amazon doesn’t give up. A reporter was recently released the following statement: “Prime Air is committed to realizing the goal of delivering packages with drones. We are pioneers in uncharted terrain and will continue to take the time to create the right technology and infrastructure to make it through. “

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