VIDEO. Amazon testing delivery in 30 minutes by mini-UAV

The founder of the American retail giant Amazon online, Jeff Bezos, announced Sunday evening of 1 December that his company planned to use in a few years octocoptères mini-UAVs to deliver small packages for its clients in a half hour.

The ambitious project requires additional safety tests and approval from the U.S. aviation authorities but according to Jeff Bezos' Amazon Prime Air "could be operational in four to five years.

A demonstration video posted on the website of the company shows tiny robotic craft carrying in the air parcels stored in small yellow boxes, from warehouses to customers who ordered 30 minutes earlier on Amazon.com.