惯性聚合 高效追踪和阅读你感兴趣的博客、新闻、科技资讯
阅读原文 在惯性聚合中打开

推荐订阅源

Jina AI
Jina AI
MyScale Blog
MyScale Blog
量子位
月光博客
月光博客
J
Java Code Geeks
A
About on SuperTechFans
H
Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More
U
Unit 42
WordPress大学
WordPress大学
OSCHINA 社区最新新闻
OSCHINA 社区最新新闻
腾讯CDC
G
Google Developers Blog
博客园 - 【当耐特】
Engineering at Meta
Engineering at Meta
让小产品的独立变现更简单 - ezindie.com
让小产品的独立变现更简单 - ezindie.com
宝玉的分享
宝玉的分享
IT之家
IT之家
N
Netflix TechBlog - Medium
Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft Security Blog
博客园 - 叶小钗
B
Blog
Martin Fowler
Martin Fowler
P
Proofpoint News Feed
B
Blog RSS Feed

Futurism

These Robot Soldiers Are Getting Downright Terrifying Dozens of Humanoid Robots Gather for a Protest, Marching and Waving Signs Bizarre Glitch Causes Delivery Robots to Swarm Busy City Sidewalk Surveillance-Happy Police In Shambles After Trump Tariffs Makes Drones Absurdly Expensive Humanoid Robot Fights Back After Getting Shoved As If There Was Any Question About Data Centers Being Weak Job Creators, Meta Is Now Deploying Robots to Maintain Them Chinese Companies Are Unleashing AI-Powered Robo-Chefs This Has to Be the Most Amazing Robot Death We’ve Ever Seen Flock Is Quietly Selling Powerful Drones That Scan License Plates From the Sky Chinese Startup Shows Off Robot Horse You Can Actually Ride Unitree's New Robot Can Sprint Faster Than Usain Bolt, Though the Way It Moves May Give You Nightmares About Demons Department of Homeland Security Seeking Humanoid Robots to Patrol Southern Border Volunteers Tracking Lost Dog Baffled When Locals Trash Thermal Imaging Drone Robot Dogs Suddenly Taking Jobs From Human Security Guards Schools Deploying Pepper Spray Drones to Attack Mass Shooters Sex Doll Company Strikes Bizarre Deal to Put Its Robot in High School Classrooms Startup Sued After Delivery Bot Clobbers 73-Year Old Woman We're Admittedly Terrified That They've Now Invented Invisible Drones Striking Workers Bring Car Factory to a Screeching Halt Over Humanoid Robots Brutal Humanoid Robot Cage Match Stops Abruptly When One of the Robot’s Heads Pops Off Startup Upset After Journalist Points Out How Creepy Its Humanoid Robots's Hands Are Wild Video Shows Quadcopter Drone Plucking Man From Raging Floodwaters, Whisking Him to Safety Sheriff Unveils Humanoid Robot for Hostage Negotiation Purposes, Which Definitely Won't End in Disaster Major Union Livid After 1,000 Factory Workers Were Replaced With 50 Robots Factories Attach Cameras to Workers, in Hopes of Replacing Them With Robots Company Pulls Delivery Robots From All College Campuses Korean Workers Vote to Go On Strike, Fearing Robots Could Replace Them Robot Seen on Street Begging for Change DoorDash Delivery Robot Invades SWAT Scene, Won't Leave as Cops Flashbang Resident Failing Robot Cop Company Knightscope Now Publishing Bizarre AI Slop Fan Fiction About Its Robots Solving Absurd Crimes
Amazon Delivery Drone Drops Package Directly Into Custome...
Frank Landymore · 2026-08-23 · via Futurism

A color-treated photo of an Amazon done delivering a package.

Amazon / Futurism

Sign up to see the future, today

Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech

A Texas woman ran outside to witness the future of delivery services. There, hovering above her property, was a large Amazon Prime Air drone that had just descended from the heavens to dispense her package.

But in a video she recorded of this encounter recently shared by ABC7 News, all did not go as planned. The advanced flying machine took its time, lined up its shot, and plunked her parcel straight into her swimming pool — which landed with all the ceremony of a giant turd hitting the bottom of a toilet bowl.

“Oh my god, oh my god,” she said in anticipation. Then, after splashdown: “oh s***!”

An Amazon customer in Texas was not enthused when her first drone-delivered order was dropped into her swimming pool. After hearing the loud buzzing of the drone arriving, she ran outside to record the delivery, and to her surprise, it landed in her pool. pic.twitter.com/6TIcrJIVAR

— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) August 19, 2026

The timing couldn’t be any funnier. Earlier this week, Amazon announced that its drone delivery service will expand to 500 more cities across the US, up from the 11 it operates in right now. Call that news a heads up, in light of the drone’s proven aerial bombardment capabilities.

This isn’t the first time something like this has happened, either. A video taken in May showed one of Amazon’s drones dropping a package on the edge of a pond, before it tumbled into the water floated away. Another video taken last year showed a similar accident, except the package rolled into a customer’s pool.

Water isn’t the only terrain that the drones are carelessly dropping packages onto. Suspicious of how the delivery bots would handle fragile items, one person filmed a drone dropping their order of syrup straight onto concrete, which ended up breaking the plastic bottle.

The drone in the video is Amazon’s MK-30 model, which is large compared to consumer drones and weigh around 80 lbs. Residents have complained about their noise, comparing them to helicopters. Some of them have also crashed. Two operating in the West Valley area near Phoenix collided into a construction crane last year and burst into flames, causing Amazon to temporarily suspend deliveries in the area.

An Amazon spokesperson addressed the recent pool pratfall in a statement, insisting that the drones are performing swimmingly.

“Incidents are extremely rare, and when a delivery doesn’t go as planned, we learn from it to improve the experience and take steps to prevent it from happening in the future,” they told Mashable.

More on drones: Volunteers Tracking Lost Dog Baffled When Locals Trash Thermal Imaging Drone