The drones will travel to the customer’s address, descend to a height of about four meters – or 13 feet – and drop a padded package.
Amazon will soon make prescription drugs fall from the Texas sky when the e-commerce giant becomes the latest company to test drone deliveries for medications.
The company’s Prime Air division began testing drone deliveries of common household items last December in College Station and Lockeford, Calif. Amazon spokesperson Jessica Bardoulas said the company has made thousands of deliveries since launching the service, and is expanding it to include prescriptions based in part on customer requests.Amazon Prime already delivers some medications from the company’s pharmacy inside of two days.
Companies seeking to use drones for commercial purposes have faced hurdles from regulators who want to make sure things are operating safely. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had predicted a decade ago that drones would be making deliveries by 2018. Even now, the e-commerce giant is only using the technology in two markets.
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