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Drones on and on and on | The Boston Globe
US needs to join the aviation revolution
Last week’s announcement that Amazon is testing the delivery of packages with small drones has created a media storm, and seems to have taken most people by...
10 December 2013, by
Hallie Siegel
Amid drone talk, Amazon has real robots | Wall Street Journal Blog
Amazon got a lot of ink for its sci-fi drone delivery idea this week, but a more real and immediate robot effort underway in the Seattle retailer’s warehouses could save it as much as $916 million a...
09 December 2013, by
Hallie Siegel
Jeff Bezos reaches for tip of UAS iceberg
On Sunday, Charlie Rose from CBS News 60 Minutes, interviewed Jeff Bezos about what is next for Amazon, the world's largest online retailer with more than 225 million customers.
Volume can reach 30...
05 December 2013, by
Frank Tobe
Amazon Prime Air: 5 Predictions About the Retailer’s Delivery Drones | TIME
Assuming Amazon Prime Air eventually launches … there are a handful of predictions about the system itself and delivery-by-drone systems in general…
Read more by Doug Aamoth on TIME.com...
02 December 2013, by
Hallie Siegel
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos looks to the future | 60 Minutes
There has never been a company quite like Amazon. Conceived as an online book seller, Amazon has reinvented itself time and again, changing the way the world shops, reads and computes. Amazon has 225 ...
02 December 2013, by
Hallie Siegel
Amazon Promises Package Delivery By Drone: Is It for Real? | Automaton
Once you get past the wow factor [of Amazon's drone delivery announcement] and start thinking critically about what it would take to make something like this work in practice, it starts to look a lot...
02 December 2013, by
Hallie Siegel
Amazon announces plans for drone delivery service, says safety will be key priority
Amazon announced yesterday that it is developing a drone delivery service called Prime Air that will aim to get packages into customer's hands within 30 minutes. They are planning to launch as soon a...
02 December 2013, by
Hallie Siegel
Amazon Reveals It Wants To Deploy Delivery Drones | Huff Post
Amazon offering delivery on Sunday was only the beginning.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:It's no surprise that Amazon wants drone delivery to solve the last mile problem. And probably an underwhelming...
02 December 2013, by
Andra Keay
Robotics year in review: Top 10 stories of 2012
The past year was a watershed moment for robotics. From defense to exploration, startups to legislation, we saw products, laws, and investments that have shifted robotics out of the lab and into our l...
26 December 2012, by
David Pietrocola
Distribution centers: An emerging robotics frontier
Distribution centers (DCs) are massive warehouses that receive, inspect and store goods for later picking, packing and shipping to end-users, re-distributors or retail outlets. Products can be everyth...
03 October 2012, by
Frank Tobe
Why robot startups now? Part 2
2. Broader Financial Climate
A positive indicator for robotics startups is the improving financial climate. There are signs that the US housing market is stabilizing. Fannie Mae, the government bac...
11 May 2012, by
Andra Keay
Another big robot acquisition: Amazon buys Kiva Systems
... Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) will acquire privately-held Kiva Systems for approximately $775 million!
... Kiva’s novel warehousing system uses robots to bring the shelves to the picker and packer in...
19 March 2012, by
Frank Tobe
