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"Online retailer Amazon hopes to have mini drones delivering packages to customers in just 30 minutes, its chief executive has claimed.
During a TV appearance in the United States, Jeff Bezos played a video showing the tiny robotic devices, known as octocopters, which pick up items in small yellow buckets and whiz them through the air.
"I know this looks like science fiction. It's not," Mr Bezos told CBS television's 60 Minutes show.
"We can do half-hour delivery ... and we can carry objects, we think, up to 5lbs, which covers 86% of the items that we deliver.""
and is there the air space for 86% of their items? air traffic control for amazon courier drones would be a nightmare. are those motors 2 stroke? can you keep it if you can catch it?
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Hazmatt_(The Underdog) wrote ...
"All your package are belong to US!"
yeah there will be con artists who try to hack and crack this kind of idea.
But somebody like Bezos deserves credit for thinking ahead, remember everybody thought the IBM hardware would be worth a fortune, and this software stuff wont every really amount to much. hello Mr Gates....
But "our dear leader" will probly make a propaganda video showing the imperialist Amazon drones being downed by an AK-47 ... to a "we are the world" song...
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Good publicity stunt. All over the news today. Genius. Practical.... read the Popular Mechanics from the 1960s about we all have flying cars by now.... Imagine the mess if we did.
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richnormand wrote ...
Good publicity stunt. All over the news today. Genius. Practical.... read the Popular Mechanics from the 1960s about we all have flying cars by now.... Imagine the mess if we did.
Electronic allocation of airspace will greatly improve anything over what was foreseeable in the 60's.
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With fully enclosed drive pods this might work, one idea for a more efficient drone is to use a stack of free spinning impellers running in phase on their own magnetic bearings with a common driver coil set on the outside. Some PCs use this principle already to reduce fan noise
The magnets would be moulded inside the last 1cm of the blade and would use flat NIB, so even if a blade fails the drive is not completely lost. If anything this approach is far less likely to fail because even a direct impact would likely just stall one or two impeller segments and the rest would carry on spinning just fine.
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Conundrum wrote ...
With fully enclosed drive pods this might work, one idea for a more efficient drone is to use a stack of free spinning impellers running in phase on their own magnetic bearings with a common driver coil set on the outside. Some PCs use this principle already to reduce fan noise
The magnets would be moulded inside the last 1cm of the blade and would use flat NIB, so even if a blade fails the drive is not completely lost. If anything this approach is far less likely to fail because even a direct impact would likely just stall one or two impeller segments and the rest would carry on spinning just fine.
I fail to understand, please elaborate.
most of the drones ive made are include a ducted prop. Just becuase a free prop seems to be a shrub and tree-limb magnet.
Its also the AUVSI's plan to improve safety, they want us colleges to pioneer enclosed ducts and autonomous collision avoidance, of course we do the work, they get the contracts.
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