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A few months afterendingits drone - based obstetrical delivery program , Prime Air , in California , Amazonsaysthat it ’s start making deliveries to select customers via lagger in Phoenix , Arizona .
Starting today , Amazon customers in the West Valley Phoenix Metro Area have access to a drone - deliverable selection from Amazon ’s catalog , include household , beaut , office , health , and tech supplies . Products must weigh five pounds or less to be eligible ; Amazon says about 50,000 are available at launching .
Customers can take the dawdler delivery position for their address before they check out . Most can await to invite items in an hr max , grant to Amazon , delivered directly from the take - off situation in Tolleson .
An Amazon spokesperson told TechCrunch that drone saving will be available during the daytime 60 minutes and “ favorable ” weather conditions . “ Currently we do not offer drone rescue at night , during lumbering fart , or during heavy rain , ” they added . “ client in designate delivery area within a radius of our site can get a droning pitch … We ’ll inform client when drone delivery is live in their area . ”
Amazon ’s using its latest drone for deliveries , theMK30 , which was latterly approved by the Federal Aviation Administration to aviate beyond the visual occupation of mass of drone hustler . Amazon claim the MK30 can aviate double as far as its previous lagger , is about 50 % quieter to the human capitulum , and is built to fly in showery weather .
Amazon has also started to deploy the MK30 to make deliveries in College Station , Texas , where the company has been testing droning - based prescription medicine deliveriessince 2023 .
Amazon ’s drone rescue cause have faced a numeral of setbacks , fromcomplaintsover haphazardness toregulatory hurdlesandlayoffs . far-flung cost - cut efforts by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy have also stymied the service ’s progress .
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To place the stage for easier — and presumably less expensive — deployments , Amazon says it ’s now integrate its drone systems into its same - day delivery connection rather of building standalone facilities .
Amazonpreviouslysaid that it would bring its drone delivery offerings to the U.K. and Italy by the end of 2024 . The fellowship gave no update on those plan today .
