AMAZON FLOATSFLOATS DRONE HUB

摘要

An enormous airship hovers eight miles above the city, its cavernous interior filled with consumer goods. Small drones spill out from it like candy from a piñata, delivering orders all over the city within minutes of customers' placing them. The idea of a giant, floating drone-mothership seems unrealistic, but global retail behemoth Amazon seems to believe it realistic enough: The company filed a patent last year to do just that. It's just one of several forward-thinking concepts the company may pursue in using drones to close the "last mile" delivery gap.