It seems that a major Chinese online store JD.com serious about drone delivery of orders, including large. Courier delivery drones the company is already practiced, but so far applied only to small orders. Meanwhile, representatives of the company claim that in the suburbs and rural areas to deliver packages by drones are significantly cheaper, so the online shop is going to streamline this process, by improving and increasing the state of drone couriers.
In JD.com believe that the development of drone-heavyweight will be completed in the next three years, so the company’s representatives discussed the possibility of testing the truck in Shaanxi province with local authorities and received permission to use the test ranges and air routes.
Heavy drones can be useful not only in delivery of parcels to remote areas — their capacity will allow you to use flying machines for delivery of the crop from the province to the city.
Express delivery of parcels using drones is carried out in JD.com from last year. Now the routes that fly the UAV, a little more than twenty, but by the end of 2017, their number is going to increase to a hundred.
Announced drone-a heavyweight with a capacity of up to tons
Vyacheslav Larionov