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The first drone delivery brought popcorn

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The grand, futuristic promise of autonomous flying robots seamlessly bringing us critical goods was inaugurated by a small bag of snacks. Amazon decided the best way to prove their sophisticated Prime Air drone tech in the UK was to fly an Amazon Fire TV device and a bag of popcorn to a guy named Richard. Decades of aeronautical engineering culminating in a robotic snack-run.

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