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Amazon Logistics Services - The Future of Logistics?
By Zvi Schreiber, PhD ·
February 02, 2016
As an industry, logistics is ripe for technology-driven disruption, and no company is better at leveraging technology to broaden margins than Amazon - logistics and delivery companies should be tracking these early days of Amazon‘s logistics play like hawks.
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Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee to Hold Hearings on Amazon Drones
By Brendan Sasso ·
December 02, 2013
Amazon's plans for using drones to deliver packages is just one example of the potential this technology offers consumers, and a reflection of the ingenuity of American business.
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Amazon Reportedly Focusing on Expanding its Delivery Trial Offering Threatening FedEx & UPS
According to Bloomberg, Amazon is expanding its FBA Onsite service, previously called Seller Flex, to make more groceries, cleaning supplies and other products available for quick delivery directly from merchants without overwhelming the e-commerce giant’s warehouses with additional inventory, according.
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Amazon Testing Drones Because Otherwise Drones Could Kill Amazon (Delivery)
Jeff Bezos says we're four or five years from drones being able to deliver small packages right to your house, largely because the company has to work with the FAA to make sure it's legally allowed to run the Prime Air program.
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Amazon’s Plans For Delivery Drones
By Rob Price ·
May 12, 2015
Amazon said it was ready to start commercial drone deliveries as soon as regulations were in place - details about how Amazon's proposed delivery drones may work have now been published by the US Patent Office.
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Amazon Reveals Impressive Prime Air Drone
Yes, Amazon still wants to deliver packages with drones, and we don't blame them - as Jeremy Clarkson explains, using drones to drop off packages could be great for buyers, who might want to get certain items as fast as humanly possible.
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Amazon Wants to Put Drone Platforms on Street Lights and Cell Towers
For Amazon, which seems determined to lead the field in drone delivery, the answer might come from a recently approved patent: docking stations for drones, installed on existing streetlights and various towers.
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UPS and FedEx Researching Delivery Drones That Could Compete With Amazon
I would be shocked if a companies like UPS and FedEx aren't considering this," says Ryan Calo, a law professor specializing in drones and robotics. "If you want to compete in logistics and delivery, drones and unmanned robots have to be part of the conversation about where things are headed."
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Amazon Quietly Expands Logistics Delivery to Canada
By Simon Hung ·
October 05, 2016
Amazon is throwing their hat in the delivery ring, as they’ve recently began shipping some orders in Canada using their own delivery service, Amazon Logistics.
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New U.S. Rules on Low-Altitude Commercial Drones
By David Shepardson ·
June 21, 2016
There already are 10,602 registered commercial drones in the U.S., and the potential for growth in their use is enormous, the FAA projects sale of drones intended for commercial use will triple from 600,000 this year to 2.7 million in 2020.
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Amazon’s Drone Delivery from a Flying Warehouse
The e-commerce giant has been awarded a patent that describes a logistics technology it calls "airborne fulfillment center" which essentially is an airship that's capable of flying at altitudes of 45,000 feet or more that would house items the company sells through its online marketplace.
Research
Making Drones Safer By Crashing Into Dummies
As drones become more commonplace, the risk of physical harm from an unskilled pilot or out-of-control copter increase, so researchers at Virginia Tech are finding out how to make these machines safer, with help from a bunch of dummies, of course.
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Amazon’s Top Prime Air Executive Outlines Plans for Delivery Drones to Navigate Skies
Amazon has laid out a proposal centered on slicing U.S. airspace into segments for different categories of unmanned delivery aircraft, while keeping them all away from airplanes.
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Amazon Selects Infor for Global Logistics Business
By Steve Brooks ·
March 03, 2017
Amazon global logistics will run on Infor, says the enterprise software giant, which expects to finish moving core products to multi-tenant SaaS this year.
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UPS & FedEx Could Be Big Winners from Amazon’s Prime Day Event
CNBC's Jim Cramer discusses two stocks that could benefit big time from Amazon's Prime Day sales - FedEx and UPS.
