These of course are not piloted by humans, they are envisioning autonomous vehicles. Here is another link which includes a short video: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/171879-amazon-unveils-30-minute-prime-air...

Extremetech loves the vision, but they see practical issues in the near term.

Here is Simon’s use case: http://www.gizmag.com/dominos-domicopter-pizza-delivery/27814/ A concept video from Domino’s Pizza UK.

Stephen

From: sg16-avd-bounces@lists.packetizer.com [mailto:sg16-avd-bounces@lists.packetizer.com] On Behalf Of Paul E. Jones Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 9:31 PM To: sg16-avd@lists.packetizer.com Subject: [sg16-avd] Amazon testing 'octocopter' package-delivery drones

WP1/16 Experts,

During the most recent meeting where we talked about conferencing robots, we talked about a class of robots like these:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57614166-93/amazon-testing-octocopter-packa... http://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-unveils-futuristic-plan-delivery-by-drone...

I found it interesting that this was revealed so soon after our meeting. I doubt there is a connection, but I nonetheless thought you might be interested in getting a glimpse of what is in the works.

Paul