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By Leo KelionTechnology desk editor image copyrightAmazon image captionThe Always Home Cam keeps its rotor blades inside a cage, which could help protect pets Amazon’s smart home security division Ring has unveiled a flying camera that launches if sensors detect a potential home break-in. It is designed to only activate …

Walmart Inc. is entering the drone delivery wars, its latest move to counter Amazon.com Inc.’s dominance in e-commerce as more Americans choose to shop from home. The world’s largest retailer said it has started piloting drone delivery of grocery and household items from its stores in Fayetteville, N. C. The …

In mid-July, a UPS subsidiary called Flight Forward and the drone company Matternet started a project with the Wake Forest Baptist Health system in North Carolina. The companies’ aims are decidedly futuristic: to ferry specialty medicines and protective equipment between two of the system’s facilities, less than a half-mile apart. …

Amazon said Monday that they will be allowed to use drones to test commercial deliveries. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved Amazon Prime Air to test commercial deliveries using drones, Amazon and the FAA told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Amazon Prime Air delivers packages in a half hour or …

A new patent shows how drones can keep an eye out on a home while making deliveries.  CNET For years, Amazon has shown off how it’ll use drones to deliver items to customers, and it’s even developed a super-quiet drone for neighborhood deliveries. The company has a new patent that’ll …

More than five years ago, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos went on 60 Minutes and showed viewers the future. In a video clip, Bezos unveiled an Amazon delivery drone, saying the machine could carry packages of up to 5 pounds and travel up to 10 miles. The Amazon chief said …

The Concept of Drone delivery Drones came as a huge perfection to the Wright planes of last century. Organizations are now shifting their respective frontiers of modernization and making for the inception of the drone technology; a receptiveness that extends to the retail businesses. Drone delivery, a relatively new notion …