• ch00f@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Amazon announced using drones in 2014. In pop culture, drone delivery is like an assumed common practice. Yet fucking nobody gets their packages delivered by drone. It’s been over a decade.

    These robots are vaporware. Amazon will get a stock bump and that’s the whole point.

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      8 days ago

      Amazon just rolled out their first production drone delivery SSD site in Phoenix. It’s sorta shit though.

      Zipline is way more interesting and I cant wait for them to go live in my area.

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      8 days ago

      Airspace rules are a huge factor there. I see delivery robots on the sidewalk often enough though.

      I suspect most companies are still waiting out the testing and waiting for costs to be reduced.