Forbes October 18, 2023
Amazon Pharmacy announced its latest innovation today: drone delivery for medications. The venture is initially launching in College Station, Texas, where customers can now get their prescription medications delivered to right outside their door within 60 minutes or less.
This new offering is a big feat, evidenced by the amount of investment and infrastructure that the company has devoted to this effort. The drones themselves are state-of-the-art: they employ sense-and-avoid technology to navigate around obstacles, work with a neural network and computer vision to identify impediments, and fly at an altitude of 40-120 meters to delivery medications at unprecedented speeds.
Perhaps the only thing more impressive than the technology itself is the significant value addition this service will bring to...
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