Google's drones deliver burritos to customers' homes

Unmanned aerial vehicles will begin dropping feed and goods onto the customer's home garden in Australia.

This is a Google plan for the Project Wing . On October 17, the search firm announced a pilot drone delivery service with two Australian businesses that are a chain of Mexican food and a pharmaceutical company. It was not the first time the Project Wing team used drone to send people burritos . Last year, the firm shook hands with Chipotle at Virginia Tech, but in an open area without a specific address, according to James Burgess, one of the project managers.

This is a Google plan for the Project Wing.

A trial in Australia takes place in the village near Canberra, where residents have to drive for about 40 minutes to buy anything, whether it's milk, green leafy vegetables or coffee. Bringing goods to their home gardens is a challenge not simply in comparison with the trials in Virginia.

With each delivery, they face a new space with different trees, cages, fences and wires. They have difficulty at every stage, from programming the device to flying over obstacles safely to doing the customer's desire to move food to the kitchen.

As the food is Mexican food and pharmaceuticals, the challenge is multiplied. Ordering and delivery systems need to handle hot food from Guzman y Gomez and items of all sizes and shapes from the extensive catalog of Chemist Warehouse. Information gathered from two partners helps Google build the system so salespeople simply focus on what they are doing well - like cooking food or making people healthier - instead of being distracted by the flu. complex logistics.

Projet Wing is a drone delivery project of X, a subsidiary of Alphabet, which explores new technology. Service in Australia is the latest activity in the drone delivery battle is heating up between major brands.

Last year, Domino announced the start of use of equipment to deliver pizza in New Zealand. Amazon also launched a similar service in the UK in December 2016 with popcorn and Fire tablets.