Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery service to nearly 500 cities and towns across the US by the end of 2026. That build-out amounts to six times the number of locations Prime Air serves today, extending the option to communities with tens of millions of customers, according to Amazon.
Reaching that many locations without adding pilots to each flight depends on the drones’ own decision-making systems rather than a large ground staff monitoring individual flights. Prime Air’s fleet runs on what Amazon calls “highly autonomous” flight software, engineered to keep functioning safely and predictably when something unexpected…
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