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CANBERRA: A Google-related company will begin delivering takeaway and other small items to Canberra residents after the company receives approval from aviation watchdogs in Australia on Tuesday. (April 9)
The drone company "Wing" – a branch of Google's parent company, Alphabet – has been testing deliveries for 18 months, but will now be able to continue in the future.
"We have approved Wing Aviation Pty Ltd for the operation of continuous delivery drones in North Canberra," said Tuesday the Civil Aviation Safety Authority.
The company said it delivered "food and beverages, over-the-counter pharmacy items, as well as locally made coffee and chocolate".
About 3,000 deliveries were made, allowing regulators to deem that the project was safe, leading to the first commercial approval in Australia and one of the first in the world.
Winged drones will only be allowed to fly 11-12 hours per day and must be flown rather than fully automated.
The initial area of operations has only about 100 homes, but this expansion is expected to grow rapidly.
The regulator did not examine the impact of the project on noise or privacy – two issues that arose during the testing.
Wing says UAV shipments reduce traffic and pollution and are fast – they are completed in six to ten minutes.
A customer uses an application to order the product, which is loaded on a drone.
The drone hovers over its destination, lowering the goods on a cable that looks like a winch before flying out.
In the United States, last month, UPS launched the first authorized use of unmanned drones in this country for the transport of parcels to recipients.
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