Delivery drone

Wendy’s is starting a new drone delivery program in Christiansburg, Virginia on Thursday, where residents will be able to choose airflight as an option on DoorDash. Autonomous drones from Wing will fly 65 mph while holding Bacanotors, Frosties, and other items before gently dropping them onto the front lawn of a customer. The Fujifilm X100VI is the Most Fun I’ve Had With a Camera in YearsThe roughly 21,000 residents of Christiansburg will be the first town in America to have Wendy’s flown to their doorstep. A DoorDash…

Amazon Prime Air received clearance from the FAA to bring drone delivery to Lockeford and College Station in November and December of 2022.Image: Scott Eisen (AP)Amazon’s drone delivery service was all talk and no action for nearly a decade, until this past December, when customers were finally able to purchase their favorite products and have them shipped via Amazon Prime Air. However, sources close to the project told The Information this week that Amazon’s drones have only delivered packages to fewer than 10 houses in…

Amazon Prime Air is Amazon’s drone delivery program that is supposed to deliver a 5 pound or less package to you in less than 30 minutes. Image: Scott Eisen (AP)Amazon’s foray into drone delivery has been a bumpy road, according to a former Amazon manager who worked with the tech. Cheddi Skeete says that he was fired from the company after raising concerns over the safety of Amazon’s drone delivery program.According to The Seattle Times, Skeete says that there was no onboarding process for new employees working on the…

Alphabet owned autonomous delivery drone company Wing on Friday released footage of a first of its kind delivery drone command center. The space resembles a military war room but rather than monitor Predator drones dropping bombs over villages, Wing technicians will watch Uber like GPS routes to ensure flying Doritos and Tylenol get to their intended recipients.The Wing technicians, referred to as “Pilots in Command,” sit in a central office in Texas where they can observe feeds of deliveries occurring across multiple…

Meet Jeff, an Amazon employee with zero work-life balance. All he does is toil his days away for the mega-corp, making sure customers are united with their mounds of totally necessary impulse buys. He needs a vacation! But since he’s a drone, that sounds impossible... until the world finds a way. By ending.This somehow delightful yet also depressing short film from filmmaking collective shy kids—shared by Short of the Week—skewers consumerism while proposing a not-entirely-impossible view of the near future.JEFF | Amazon…

It’s always nice when delivery food stays hot all the way to your door, but one drone in Australia may have taken it too far. An unmanned delivery vehicle, operated by Wing—a subsidiary of Alphabet (parent of Google), landed on power lines in Brisbane and fried itself with11,000 volts of electricity. As a result more than 2,000 homes and businesses briefly went dark on Thursday, according to reports from The Age and ABC News Australia.Danny Donald, a spokesperson from utility provider Energex, described the incident as a…