{"id":314385,"date":"2017-06-25T05:20:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T04:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/amazons-vision-for-the-future-delivery-drone-beehives-in-every-city\/"},"modified":"2017-06-25T05:20:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T04:20:07","slug":"amazons-vision-for-the-future-delivery-drone-beehives-in-every-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/amazons-vision-for-the-future-delivery-drone-beehives-in-every-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s vision for the future: delivery drone beehives in every city"},"content":{"rendered":"
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June 23, 2017<\/p>\n

Amazon\u2019s drone delivery program stopped being a joke a while ago, but the company still has to overcome serious challenges to make the technology actually work. One of these is getting drones near enough to large populations so they\u2019re more efficient than regular road delivery. Amazon has an idea for that though: Huge. Drone. Beehives.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a\u00a0patent application<\/a>\u00a0published yesterday, Amazon described how \u201cmulti-level fulfillment centers for unmanned aerial vehicles\u201d could help put drones where they\u2019re needed. The application notes that due to \u201ctheir large footprint,\u201d current warehouses are located \u201con the outskirts of cities where space is available.\u201d But multi-story drone centers could be built vertically, rather than horizontally, allowing them to be placed within \u201cdowntown districts and\/or other densely populated urban areas.\u201d And, of course, making them high-rises would let the drones fly in and out without getting dangerously close to pedestrians at street level.<\/p>\n

Amazon\u2019s application includes sketches of a number of differently shaped buildings and interior views, showing how human employees would load-up the drones with packages:<\/p>\n

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But flying large numbers of drones in cities invites other problems too. Who\u2019s going to want to live near a drone delivery tower if it makes so much noise? And what if drones start falling out the sky, making impromptu, and possibly fatal, deliveries? Amazon is obviously thinking hard about these problems, and in the same round of patent applications as the delivery beehive, suggests a few solutions.<\/p>\n

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