Finally! Drones are in Action for speedy door to door cargo deliveries as Alibaba Joins Drone Delivery Trial Group
Alibaba is the largest internet company in Asia. This famous group in the world of online shopping , in association with Shanghai YTO Express Logistics has freshly prepared its first trial drone for the supplies of ginger tea packs from Alibaba Group’s Taobao Marketplace shopping website to 450 Chinese consumers, who offered for the one time drone tests.
Alizila is a news website financed by Alibaba Group reported that concentrating on the e-commerce industry and the group, the tests of drone carriage technology were completed in the Chines cities Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.
The report also revealed that over a period of three days, door to door parcel delivery quad-copters were used to convey boxed sets of ginger tea high above city traffic to 450 Taobao shoppers who purchase the tea for RMB 49.
The drones, which are controlled by remote did not fly accurately to customers’ gates, but they landed outside their houses, where parcels were received by human couriers for the duty of home delivery. The Alizila’s report also showed that by conducting the trial of the drone delivery service, the officers of the Taobao and YTO Express are not proposing that the drone delivery service is suitable for commercialization in China. The e-commerce company stated that it was only a one-off promotion to check the viability of the technology.
According to aeronautics authorities in China, the US and Europe are discerning about how to get in rules to run drone for the purposes of commercialization.
This has collected strength against numerous such campaigns by e-commerce and logistics companies to use the technology of drone flights to do the home distribution of boxes more professionally. In the past, another famous internet retailer Amazon had started testing remote distributions overseas after requesting the US Federal Aviation Administration to speed approvals for drone trials in Washington State.
In last year September, the DHL verified its drone delivery of medications. It was part of a feasibility assignment, in which a drone machine was used to transport medicine from the port of Norddeich, Germany, to the small island of Juist. According to DHL every day according to weather conditions the drone will fly freely on a pre-programmed route of seven and a half mile , the routine operations in Europe in which a drone will work beyond the vision of the pilot. Strategies of DHL follow those of Amazon and Google, which have each confirmed their specific delivery drones. DHL is expected that the technology is stand by for some real world applications.
