Drone delivers hot food items and cold beverages to customers' homes in the US

Drone delivery is becoming a reality as shown by a US-based drone delivery service. It has successfully completed its first month in operation by sending over-the-counter medicines, hot food items and cold beverages to customers' homes by using GPS-enabled autonomous flying vehicles.
This has been reported in thestatesman.com dated 22 December 2016.

The company has carried out regular weekend deliveries last month from a convenience store to customers who placed orders by using their smartphone app. The app lists all items available for delivery, and notified customers when their drone was loaded, when it departed from the store and when it was arriving at their doorstep. Once it reached the customer's home, the drone hovered in place and lowered the package.
On an average, customers received their packages in less than 10 minutes from the time of order.
The company has completed 77 autonomous drone deliveries to customer homes.
Customers who participated in the deliveries was a group of elderly couples, working parents and busy college students and feedback from customers mentioned about the speed and convenience as the most appealing aspects of the deliveries.


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