> Rakuten has been offering drone delivery in Japan since 2016 and unmanned vehicle trials since 2018. It said that working with JD — which claims to have racked up 400,000 minutes of delivery flight time — will “accelerate the development and commercialization” of its human-free last-mile delivery efforts.
https://www.economist.com/business/2018/06/09/how-e-commerce...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-03/china-s-o...
And in Japan:
> Rakuten has been offering drone delivery in Japan since 2016 and unmanned vehicle trials since 2018. It said that working with JD — which claims to have racked up 400,000 minutes of delivery flight time — will “accelerate the development and commercialization” of its human-free last-mile delivery efforts.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/jd-com-drones-rakuten/