A quadcopter drone delivered an Amazon Fire TV box and a bag of popcorn to a customer near Cambridge, England.
With drone delivery, the sky is no longer the limit, but Amazon is not the only one doing drone delivery tests.
In Singapore, the National University of Singapore and Airbus Helicopters announced in February that they were working on a trial network for parcel deliveries across campus by drone.
1. A letter and shirt to Pulau Ubin
In October 2015, SingPost delivered a letter and a T-shirt in a parcel by drone from Lorong Halus to Pulau Ubin.The 2km delivery took about five minutes.Similar trials had been run in other countries such as Germany and Switzerland, but SingPost said then that its trial was "the first time in the world a postal service has successfully used an unmanned aerial vehicle for point-to-point recipient-authenticated mail delivery".
The drone was developed by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and built using the Pixhawk Steadidrone platform by IDA Labs.
2. Pizza delivery in New Zealand
in November, New Zealand pulled off a pizza delivery by drone.Fast food giant Domino's delivered two pizzas using an unmanned aerial vehicle to a customer at Whangaparaoa, north of Auckland, on Nov 17.It rolled out pizza delivery by drone to select customers in the area before expanding it to other places in New Zealand.
Domino's said it was also looking into expanding its use of drones to Australia, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Japan and Germany.
http://www.straitstimes.com/tech/amazon-makes-first-drone-delivery-4-other-deliveries-by-unmanned-aerial-vehicles
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