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Making Amazon Drone Delivery A Reality

As Amazon builds its drone delivery service, drone experts say there a few things they'll need to build before a robot can bring you your packages. Laurie Segall reports.

Dec 5, 2013

As Amazon builds its drone delivery service, drone experts say there are a few things they'll need to build before a robot can bring you your packages.  Laurie Segall reports. 

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