Google’s Wing Debuts Drone Delivery Network Goals Written 10 March 2023

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A Wing Hummingbird drone carries a package as it leaves its launch site during a delivery flight demonstration in Blacksburg, VA, 7 August 2018. | Associated Press-©

BBC News reports Google’s subsidiary Wing says that operating drones as a network would improve efficiency. The technology “is being tested ‘at scale’ in Logan, Australia, where Wing delivers up to 1,000 packages a day.” The company “has also started trial drone deliveries in the Dublin suburb of Lusk.” The company notes that “it and other companies are in talks with the Department for Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority about agreeing regulations to allow drone deliveries in the UK.”
Full Story (BBC News)