{"id":277714,"date":"2019-06-07T06:56:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T06:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=277714"},"modified":"2019-06-07T06:56:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T06:56:40","slug":"amazon-to-test-chopper-plane-mashup-for-drone-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/amazon-to-test-chopper-plane-mashup-for-drone-deliveries\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to test chopper-plane mashup for drone deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc. has unveiled a revolutionary new drone \u2014 part helicopter and part science-fiction aircraft \u2014 that the company expects to use for test deliveries of toothpaste and other household goods starting within months.<\/p>\n<p>The new device takes off vertically, then tilts to fly horizontally like a plane. It also features artificial intelligence, using a suite of sensors the company said will allow it to fly robotically without threatening traditional aircraft or people on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a design that is amazing,\u201d Gur Kimchi, vice president of Amazon Prime Air, said in an interview in which he declined to say where the device would be tested. \u201cIt has performance that we think is just incredible. We think the autonomy system makes the aircraft independently safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc. has unveiled a revolutionary new drone \u2014 part helicopter and part science-fiction aircraft \u2014 that the company expects to use for test deliveries of toothpaste and other household goods starting within months. The new device takes off vertically, then tilts to fly horizontally like a plane. It also features artificial intelligence, using a suite of sensors the company said will allow it to fly robotically without threatening traditional aircraft or people on the ground. \u201cWe have a design that is amazing,\u201d Gur Kimchi, vice president of Amazon Prime Air, said in an interview in which he declined to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}