Amazon has been teasing the possibility of drone delivery for years, but it appears the service will soon become a reality.
Those deliveries will be completed by an electric autonomous drone, which can fly up to 15 miles while carrying 5-pound packages (or lighter) in under 30 minutes.
The drones take off and land vertically like a helicopter and only fly to low-altitude heights of about 400 feet.
All that news arrived on Wednesday, when the e-commerce giant announced the latest iteration of its Prime Air delivery drone at its conference Amazon re:MARS in Las Vegas.
During the keynote presentation, CEO Jeff Wilke said that drone delivery will be available for a very small subset of American Prime members in just a matter of months.
However, take that news with a grain of salt, as Amazon's drone plans have been pushed back before.
Had a blast sharing the stage at re:MARS with the newest member of our Prime Air drone family. Can’t wait to see this beautiful drone making ultra-fast deliveries to Amazon customers. #reMARS https://t.co/92k3S2wWUI
— Jeff Wilke (@jeffawilke) June 5, 2019
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