时间:2025-04-04 05:24:52 来源:网络整理编辑:綜合
Starting next year, certain Walmart orders will literally fly to your door. The retailer announced a
Starting next year, certain Walmart orders will literally fly to your door.
The retailer announced a trial run with medical supply drone delivery company Zipline early Monday. Only medical and health and wellness products from Walmart will be part of the pilot program and it'll only be in Northwest Arkansas in early 2021.
The drones will cover a 50-mile radius around Walmart headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. They can haul up to four pounds of cargo and fly up to 80 mph.
Items ordered online or through the Walmart app are placed into a Zipline delivery box which attaches to the drone. The products, whether headache medicine or disinfecting wipes, come from a nearby Walmart store. The order then flies a preprogrammed route to the customer's door where the box parachutes down. The drone returns back to a hub or base.
Zipline has previously worked in Rwanda and Ghana to delivery medical supplies by drone. Since the COVID-19 outbreak it's been delivering personal protective equipment and medicine to a North Carolina hospital. After the trial period Walmart said the delivery program could expand, both in coverage and what the drones carry.
SEE ALSO:Amazon gets official approval to fly its delivery dronesWalmart is racing against Amazon, which received FAA approval for its Prime Air drone delivery system last month. The online retailer hasn't started yet, but it plans to deliver orders within 30 minutes.
In North Carolina, Walmart is already testing drone deliveries with an Israeli drone company. Those fly-by orders started dropping this week.
TopicsDrones
5 people Tim Cook calls for advice on running the biggest company in the world2025-04-04 05:21
吳曦談選擇申花 :我是個重感情又不喜歡折騰的人2025-04-04 05:07
比賽日 :伊希納喬戴帽萊斯特城52025-04-04 04:51
前裁判:C羅犯規嚴重應吃到紅牌 VAR沒介入真糟糕2025-04-04 04:44
Richard Branson 'thought he was going to die' in bike accident2025-04-04 04:19
河北隊緋聞新帥結束集中隔離 有望20日會合球隊2025-04-04 04:09
李可:何朕宇加盟國安與我無關 期待再度被國足征召2025-04-04 04:05
前裁判 :C羅犯規嚴重應吃到紅牌 VAR沒介入真糟糕2025-04-04 03:48
Chinese gymnastics team horrifies crowd with human jump rope2025-04-04 03:19
深度 :一人一城故事延續 三大措施助巴薩留下梅西2025-04-04 03:17
Did our grandparents have the best beauty advice?2025-04-04 05:12
王毅:申花是中國最好的俱樂部 踢什麽位置崔指導決定2025-04-04 04:56
德媒 :科曼開奔馳參加訓練違反規定 將被拜仁罰款2025-04-04 04:31
巴薩前瞻 :梅西平哈維隊史出場第一 追馬競關鍵戰2025-04-04 04:24
Pole vaulter claims his penis is not to blame2025-04-04 04:24
前裁判:C羅犯規嚴重應吃到紅牌 VAR沒介入真糟糕2025-04-04 03:35
三年頂薪留不住徐新 再缺保利尼奧廣州隊“腰軟”2025-04-04 03:26
粵媒:範誌毅“自殺式”言論引熱議 男足男籃成難兄難弟2025-04-04 03:24
Fake news reports from the Newseum are infinitely better than actual news2025-04-04 03:16
C羅踢門將下巴僅染黃!對手主席:他該被紅牌罰下2025-04-04 02:43