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Amazon Technologies has filed a patent application in India for a technology which might ensure that automated aerial vehicles (AAVs, better known as drones) do not hit humans or animals while delivering packages.
This comes as the e-commerce major is working on Amazon Prime Air, a service aimed to deliver packages up to five pounds in 30 minutes or less, using small drones.
The patent application, for propeller safety in AAVs, describes a system for automatically detecting a contact or an imminent contact between a propeller of the AAV and an object such as a human, pet or other animal. When a
