{"id":20748,"date":"2019-09-04T14:33:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T14:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=20748"},"modified":"2019-09-04T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T14:33:45","slug":"yamato-unmanned-delivery-aircrafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/yamato-unmanned-delivery-aircrafts\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Yamato introduces unmanned delivery aircrafts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yamatohk.com.hk\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Yamato<\/b><\/a><b>, a Japanese logistics company, has successfully run the first test flights of a new unmanned delivery system. The unmanned aircraft was developed as a joint project with a US helicopter manufacturer.<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first test flights were carried out at an airfield in Texas, and each lasted for a little more than four (4) minutes.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>This technological development comes at a time when Japan\u2019s workforce is gradually diminishing, as the population is getting older, and young people are increasingly fleeing the country in search of better opportunities.<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Yamato, the unmanned delivery aircraft can be officially launched as soon as 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unmanned delivery aircrafts are the future<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Technological advancements are continuously entering various industries, with logistics, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/fda-blockchain-technology-medical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medicine<\/a>, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and education being at the forefront of development.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Unmanned delivery aircrafts might sound like an item coming from a sci-fi movie, but Yamato is making them a reality.<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The test devices were able to accelerate up to a speed of one hundred and fifty kilometers per hour (150 km\/h). The carrying capacity of the machine is about thirty kilograms (30 kg), making it an efficient and speedy logistics device.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Delivery drones are becoming increasingly popular all over the world. E-commerce giant Amazon has also launched a test project, which aims to introduce parcel delivery with the help of small unmanned aircrafts.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sooner rather than later, we are going to be witnessing a shift towards unmanned devices, as they reduce costs and boost productivity. But are unmanned delivery aircrafts as good a prospect for the working population as for big corporations and entities like Amazon?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yamato, a Japanese logistics company, has successfully run the first test flights of a new unmanned delivery system. The unmanned aircraft was developed as a joint project with a US helicopter manufacturer. The first test flights were carried out at an airfield in Texas, and each lasted for a little more than four (4) minutes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}