Underscoring its commitment to aerial delivery, Amazon has applied for a pair of sky-high patents describing a “super-drone collective” and a floating warehouse to supply and dock them.
“Patent applications by Amazon for drones that band together to form a bigger drone or flying warehouses held aloft by blimps show how busily the company is thinking about its aerial-delivery initiative. Share story Amazon.com scientists have dreamed up a scheme straight out of “Voltron,” a 1980s animated show for kids where several vehicles joined together to form an evil-fighting super-robot.”