Project wing: they approved the delivery of home parcels with drones in Australia

The ordering service works in partnership with local businesses such as coffee shops and pharmacies. to deliver your products "in minutes".

However, the regulatory approval of Project Wing This comes with restrictions: the drones will not be able to fly on the main roads, they will not be able to deliver until around 7 o'clock. and 20 hours from Monday to Friday (or between 8am and 8pm on Saturdays and Sundays).

In addition, they will not be able to fly too close to people. Eligible household customers will also receive a safety briefing to interact with drones.

About 100 homes in the suburbs of Crace, Palmerston and Franklin will first access the service, but over the next few months, the company plans to expand it in the following areas: Harrison and Gungahlin.

The wing predicts that deliveries of unmanned aircraft could deliver up to one in four food orders by 2030.

Unlike the United States, they have now reached Australia, where the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has authorized Wing courier drones to operate on weekdays after seven in the morning, and to send food, drinks or medicine. .

In December, Wing announced the launch of a test service in Finland, offering free deliveries lasting 10 minutes in the country's capital..

As seen in the videos of the tests, These drones do not arrive to land and simply drop the package in the garden of the house. A pretty safe mechanism Although the way this service would be installed in a building has not been detailed yet.

Before the competition

Google's unsupervised delivery company has moved to Amazon to offer a commercial service to the general public. Despite a series of large-scale tests in the United Kingdom and the United States, the Amazon service has not yet been marketed, he said. Business Insider.

Last year, an Amazon spokesman said The badociated press that the company is still "determined to reach our goal of providing drone packs in 30 minutes or less".

Not only is Amazon competing with Wing for delivering drones. The Israeli company Flytrex has started testing its own logistics service drones in Iceland in 2017 and Flirtey was making commercial drone deliveries for 7-Eleven in the USA since 2016.

More recently, UPS has partnered with Matternet to experiment with the use of aircraft. without staff to provide medical services. Supplies in North Carolina.

Amazon has its initiative in tests for packaging up to 2.3 kilos and Chinese Alibaba he said that will do the same thing not much time