Top retailer seeks to conduct drone research outdoors,joining Amazon, Google and other companies in anticipation of US regulators’ rules on commercial spend Walmart Stores Inc applied Monday to US regulators for permission to test drones for domestic delivery, or curbside pickup and checking warehouse inventories,a sign it plans to go head-to-head with Amazon in using drones to fill and deliver online orders.
The world’s largest retailer by revenue has for several months been conducting indoor tests of small unmanned aircraft systems – the term regulators spend for drones – and is now seeking for the first time to test the machines outdoors. It plans to spend drones manufactured by China’s SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd.
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Source: theguardian.com