WAL-MART Also Wants To Use Uavs To Deliver Goods, And The Market Is Very Competitive.

After the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) relaxed its policy, more and more companies wanted to do something with UAVs. The most recent one was WAL-MART, a retail giant.

According to Reuters, WAL-MART has submitted applications for testing commercial UAVs to FAA, which is expected to be used for door-to-door delivery, street pickup and even warehouse inspection.

Prior to this, WAL-MART has been secretly experimented indoors for several months, and now it is finally time to mature.

In the past year, WAL-MART has tried to catch up with Amazon in the field of electronic commerce. It has launched a variety of attempts, including membership service and one hour door-to-door delivery. Today, Amazon, like sending express agents to catch up with the service of UAV, is also one of WAL-MART's attempts to shake off the decline.

Unlike Amazon, its own research and development UAV, according to the application documents,

The UAVs produced by Dajiang company will be tested.

The purpose of the experiment is to "deliver goods to customers in WAL-MART stores and deliver them to the door", such as sending goods to the parking lot in the supermarket.

Spokesman for FAA

An application like WAL-MART should normally be completed within 120 days.

Before, FAA has been implementing strict control policies for commercial UAVs in the US. Amazon and Google's UAV route has not been very smooth.

So far,

In total, only 2100 uh licenses were issued.

Amazon was able to test UAVs in Seattle's laboratory before obtaining the UAV test license in May, but the final license was only issued to Amazon's UAV model, which had been eliminated.

Google went to Australia to test the prototype of his delivery UAV.

WAL-MART may have caught up with the good times, and spokesman Dan Toporek said that they will deploy tests as soon as they get permission.

"UAVs have great potential in joining our shops, sorting centers, storeroom and distribution network," he said. "70% Americans live within five miles from WAL-MART. This creates some unique and interesting opportunities for us to make use of UAVs."