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while the holiday shopping season it's all hands and robots on deck at this Amazon Fulfillment Center in Tracy California there's tens of miles of conveyance that's always running around the clock ready to make sure we get the product to the customer on time when you place an order Kiva robots whiz around with shelves of goods a picker grabs your item then it gets sent down conveyer belts to be packed and shipped the process takes just minutes and this year Amazon is cut delivery time from days to hours in select cities and through our new program Amazon Prime now which is in 20 cities which can offer 1 hour 2 hour delivery on thousands of items but what if one hour delivery could be cut in half Amazon thinks it's possible with drones revealing a new prototype in a recent video has the ability to leave a building like this and deliver to someone's backyard in 30 minutes the drones can fly for 15 miles and potentially deliver a number of smaller goods well over over 80% of the of the items in this building weigh 5 pounds or less and can be delivered by drone the company appears to address safety concerns in a patent from the filing drones could use lasers to detect distances and objects in their path Amazon won't say when to expect the primary service the real hurdle on this is the regulatory hurdle and we're working very hard with organizations both here in the US and globally to bring those regulatory hurdles down so that we can make this a reality whether that happens in time for the next holiday season is still up in the air in Tracy California alexis Avedis cnet.com for CBS News