deliveries is in the public consciousness is because an image went viral quite a long time ago now of an amazon drone delivering a parcel, which kind of suggested to us all that drone deliveries weren t so much over the horizon as they were literally around the corner. but when was the last time you had anything dropped off by quadcopter? never - deliveries still come in vans around my way! we re just not there yet for that kind of last mile delivery. there are trade offs between the weight of what can be transported, and battery life. but aside from that, what about the safety? the idea of having all of these spinning blades above our heads, and then they ve got to bring a pizza down to the pavement? now, apparently, last year there were almost 2,500 drone deliveries every day but that was worldwide. so if you think about it in the grand scale of things, that s.that s not much, is it? and i suspect that most of those would be specialist deliveries in really remote area
lara: this week, click takes off with a behind the scenes look at amazon s delivery drone facility. this feels like science fiction a bit. it has that feel. spencer: you ve met the pilot, now meet the copilot - - zoe s got her hands on microsoft s ai driven office assistant. lj sounds out the tech behind noise cancelling headphones. something to play with here. ijust want to pick each thing up and. you can, you can. and we go blackberry picking to check out the new movie chronicling the origins of a legend. you said they were the best engineers in the world! i said they re the best engineers in canada. i for years, we ve talked about how drone deliveries were around the corner. i think one of the main reasons that the idea of drone deliveries is in the public consciousness is because an image went viral quite a long time ago now of an amazon drone delivering a parcel, which kind of suggested to us all that drone deliveries weren t so much over the horizon as they were lit
for years, we ve talked about how drone deliveries were around the corner. i think one of the main reasons that the idea of drone deliveries is in the public consciousness is because an image went viral quite a long time ago now of an amazon drone delivering a parcel, which kind of suggested to us all that drone deliveries weren t so much over the horizon as they were literally around the corner. but when was the last time you had anything dropped off by quadcopter? never - deliveries still come in vans around my way! we re just not there yet for that kind of last mile delivery. there are trade offs between the weight of what can be transported, and battery life. but aside from that, what about the safety? the idea of having all of these spinning blades above our heads, and then they ve got to bring a pizza down to the pavement? now, apparently, last year there were almost 2,500 drone deliveries every day but that was worldwide. so if you think about it in the grand sca
In charlottesville, virginia and 19 others have been injured after a car ploughed into a crowd opposing a far right rally. It follows violent clashes between White Nationalists attending the march and counter protesters. A local State Of Emergency has been declared in two districts. In the last hour the governor of virginia called on the president to put a stop to hate speech in the United States, and lashed out at the White Supremacists who kicked off saturdays rally. I have a message to all the White Supremacists and the nazis who came into charlottesville today. Our message is plain and simple, go home. You are not wanted in this great commonwealth. Shame on you. You pretend that you are patriots but you are anything but a patriot. You want to talk about patriots, talk about Thomas Jefferson and george washington, who brought our country together. You think about the patriots today, the young men and women who are wearing the cost of our country, somewhere around the globe, they are
In charlottesville, virginia and 19 others have been injured after a car ploughed into a crowd opposing a far right rally. It follows violent clashes between White Nationalists attending the march and counter protesters. A local State Of Emergency has been declared in two districts. In the last hour the governor of virginia called on the president to put a stop to hate speech in the United States, and lashed out at the White Supremacists who kicked off saturdays rally. I have a message to all the White Supremacists and the nazis who came into charlottesville today. Our message is plain and simple, go home. You are not wanted in this great commonwealth. Shame on you. You pretend that you are patriots but you are anything but a patriot. You want to talk about patriots, talk about Thomas Jefferson and george washington, who brought our country together. You think about the patriots today, the young men and women who are wearing the cost of our country, somewhere around the globe, they are