Video: China tested flying robots specializing in delivery

A Chinese e-commerce group started testing the form of transporting goods to customers by unmanned vehicles.

Alibaba Group is testing unmanned devices to ship orders as ginger tea boxes. The maximum volume of orders is 340g.

The BBC said yesterday that the program was deployed in areas with travel time of about an hour from distribution centers in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Alibaba's Taobao online shopping network is responsible for conducting the test within three days.

Testing unmanned aircraft to deliver goods.(Photo taken from video)

"Although limited in scope, Taobao has provided real goods to real customers. It is a step further than what Western partners Amazon has done , " Paul Bischoff, a page representative. Tech In Asia technology, said.

In 2013, a smaller Chinese company, InCake used to distribute cakes to customers in Shanghai, using unmanned devices that were remotely controlled. However, an aviation watchdog has banned this method because it has no license.

Major corporations such as Amazon, Google, UPS and many other companies around the world are applying similar testing activities.