Wal-Mart uses drones to deliver goods. Where is the pilot?

On September 9, local time, the American retail giant Wal-Mart cooperated with the drone delivery company Flytrex to start testing the use of drones to transport groceries, and launched a pilot project in North Carolina.

Tom ward, senior vice president of Wal-Mart's customer products, said that these drones will be responsible for commodity selection, packaging, transportation and distribution through cloud control.

As a competitor of Wal-Mart, Amazon said on August 3 1 that its Prime Air drone delivery service has been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration and will begin limited parcel delivery testing for American customers.

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At the beginning of the test, each load shall not exceed 3kg:

According to the design, groceries and household necessities ordered by consumers are put into blue shopping bags by the clerk and put into the express box below the hanging machine. The drone accepts the instructions of the cloud system, flies over the open space in front of the customer's house, and then puts the shopping bag with goods on the ground through the rope.

According to reports, the drones used by Wal-Mart for delivery will be larger than ordinary consumer models, and the cargo capacity will not exceed 3 kg at the beginning of the test. At present, Wal-Mart has not announced the duration of the test.

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