Amaya Toman Today's episode of our Back in the Past series will be one of those in which we only mention one single event. This time it will be the Octocopter project. If that name doesn't mean anything to you, know that it was the designation for a project in which Amazon planned to deliver goods via drones.
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Drones by Amazon (2013)
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, in an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes program on December 1, 2013, stated that his company was working on another grandiose project - it was supposed to be delivery of goods using drones. The hitherto secret research and development project was originally called Octocopter, but gradually evolved into a project with the official name Prime Air. Amazon then planned to turn its grandiose plans into reality over the next four to five years. The first successful delivery using a drone finally took place on December 7, 2016 – when Apple successfully delivered a shipment to Cambridge, England, for the first time as part of the Prime Air program. On December 14 of the same year, Amazon published a video on its official YouTube channel documenting its first-ever drone delivery.
