Amazon is seeking a patent for an autonomous ground vehicle or AGV, which can take packages from a delivery truck and bring them to a customer’s doorstep. In a patent application that was published last week, the online retail giant presented details of a self-driving that can move from a customer’s home to pick up packages from a special delivery truck.
This looks similar to one that was done last year, where Amazon, the Seattle-based retailing giant was granted a patent to operate an airship that will be used to track drones as they deliver items to customers. This patent is in addition to the other one published in late 2016 to have a floating warehouse or an “airborne fulfillment center,” which would store merchandise for multiple drones to deliver.
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