Amazon promised to launch this Monday deliver orders using drones Later this year, the system will begin testing in the small town of Lockeford, headquartered in California.

The e-commerce giant has already made a statement It has the necessary technology. It just needs to get approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA for English acronym) so its products can drop from the sky into buyers’ homes.

“The promise of drone shipping has always been like science fiction. We’ve worked for almost a decade to make this a reality,” Amazon bragged in a statement.

The company assured that its engineers had developed a technology that solves one of the main problems with most common drones: they must be human. Most of these gadgets cannot recognize other objects in the path.

The Seattle-based company describes this development as a “sophisticated” and “industry-leading” system. Its technology is capable point and dodge other aircraft, people, animals and obstacles, without the need for “visual observers”.

LockfordThe city where Amazon will start testing the drone system is about 150 kilometers from San Francisco. The town has a population of just over 3,000.

Although the details about the operation of these drones are few, they will come to the garden of the buyer’s house and land on the land. in a “free” zone, sThey will drop the package and come back.

Air order delivery

Despite the innovation of the technology, Amazon is not the first company to deliver orders by air.

Its main competitor in the country, Walmarthas been testing drone delivery in Arkansas since last year. A few weeks ago, it announced that it was expanding its program with the promise of reaching four million households in certain parts of the states of Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Texas, Utah and Virginia.

In the case of Walmart, shipments by drone They cost $3.99 and hold a maximum of 10 pounds (4.5 Kg).