Prime Air Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:43:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg Prime Air Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Amazon Testing “Octocopters” For Half-Hour Delivery Times (But Not Anytime Soon) https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/12/03/1-amazon-tests-octocopters-half-hour-delivery-times/ Tue, 03 Dec 2013 06:56:28 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=11708 Lots of people buy books and products from Amazon, an online seller.

They order and pay over the Internet and the books are shipped through the mail or a delivery service like FedEx.

One day, people could get their Amazon deliveries from an "unmanned aerial vehicle" -- a tiny flying vehicle that looks like a toy helicopter.

And instead of waiting days to get the parcel, it could be at the buyer's home in half an hour or less.

The company is working on a fleet of tiny vehicles they call "Prime Air."

The vehicles are also known as "octocopters."

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