Dec. 29 (Portaltic/EP) –
After several years of testing, Amazon has started its Prime Air program to deliver packages with MK27-2 hex drones in two locations located in the states of California and Texas, in the United States.
Amazon received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration in August of this year to be able to use these aerial devices for these purposes in the United States, as recalled Ars Technica.
This service, which is not available for all the places where the company operates, only allows the shipment of packages of a certain size and these deliveries can be made exclusively in houses with backyards that have the enough space for the device to land.
In order to access this service, interested parties must subscribe to this service. Then, the company will evaluate if it is feasible to deliver these packages to their homes. At the moment, Prime Air is operating the towns of Lockeford (California) and College Station (Texas), in the United States.
Specifically, for the first deliveries of the Prime Air program, the technology giant has used the MK27-2, an electric drone capable of deliver packages with a maximum weight of 1.5 kilograms to customers in less than an hour.
The drones fly to delivery locations and land in customers’ backyards, hovering at a safe height. After releasing the package, they take flight again.
It should be remembered that Amazon presented its new delivery drone, MK30, at the beginning of November, a device that promises to be 10 percent lighter and 25 percent less noisy than its predecessor.
Unlike MK27-2, the new model is able to identify distances and safely avoid both objects and aircraft, people, pets and other obstacles that may get in the way.
At the time of its presentation, Amazon stressed that it was working on a delivery loop and that it hoped to be able to deliver 500 million packages by drone annually by the end of this decade. even in highly populated areas like Arizona or Seattle, also in the United States.
