Robot，leading the reform of Internet

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Who can understand the Amazon UAV idea, please raise your hands.

Jeff Bezos has a brilliant idea - one day, your head will be circled with some small UAV, which will drop the Amazon parcel to the Americans doorstep – which has caused a great attention. In the views of many people, this seems to be a fantasy of the expression or a downright nightmare. Probably it may be both.

Whether you believe it or not, e-commerce is changing the shopping way of the world. It is also changing the service requirements. The goods can be arrived on the next day was good but it is different now. Technology will change the aged delivery industry just like it changes other things. It is not only Bezos that holds such idea.

Why? One important reason is that there is profitable. According to research firm eMarketer data, the total global sales amount of e-commerce exceeded $ 1 trillion last year. The Double-digit growth will almost certainly continue at least until 2016. There will be more things that need to be delivered. We hope that the things that we buy on the phone for a few seconds will arrive in a few minutes.

According to the current explosive growth of e-commerce, some experts said that there will be great changes in the delivery industry. The history of UPS can date back to 1907. There were more than four million packages and documents needed to be delivered per year. The company had more than 95,000 vehicles and 500 aircraft. Ubiquitous brown UPS vehicles have a revenue record of $ 55 billion in a year. According to reports, UPS and Amazon are also studying the UAV. So as Google. There are more and more e-commerce companies trying to use the old-fashioned way - -labour delivery - - to accelerate the delivery speech.

"Cities are becoming more and more automated. You will see the delivery system which is similar to the small-size delivery vehicles to deliver anything to anywhere," said Bryant Walker Smith, the researcher of Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and the member of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford. "You don’t need to go to the store to buy milk because the robots or the UAV will go to a warehouse to buy and send to you."

Smith said the delivery vehicles have a variety of shapes and sizes. Some should be able to walk through the alley to avoid traffic jams. Some can be to refrigerate foods.

Brad Templeton, the director and futurist of Electronic Frontier Foundation said that the current delivery system - "except the Pizza " –is too clumsy and expensive for the online shoppers today. The Own vehicles including the UAV can give a faster and cheaper choice.

"Compared with the delivery system, the using cost is only a small amount," said Templeton. He also said that it will soon begin devouring many courier business.

But to achieve it, there are great obstacles between the reality and potential. Safety is one of the concerns. So do the current technology. The UAV that the Amazon shown is electric which can only bring small parcel that are lower than 5 pounds (about 2.2 kg). This means that the majority of online shopping is not applicable.

For this problem, the researcher of UAV Hal Bennett may have found the answer. He wanted to change the power from the electric to jet engines. He said such a UAV can carry 50-100 pounds parcel and fly in 45,000 feet (about 13,000 meters)height with 250 miles per hour. His UAV is still in the research stage and is highly confidential, but Bennett said the possibilities are endless.

"You can imagine that you are climbing in Yosemite and you want to eat a Burger King hamburger, you can order on the GPS," said Bennett.

Many people may not want to imagine that. Can the UAV fly over the Emirates peak to delivery and even delivery the fast food?

However, the conventional delivery service of the United States pizza shop began in the 1950s, which is another manifestation of the rise of science and technology: cars. And then to the 1960s, a man opened a pizza shop in Ypsilanti, Michigan, aiming at fast delivery. His name is Thomas Monaghan and his company called: Domino's.