Darwin Aerospace was the first company to successfully create a one-of-a-kind drone which sole purpose is to deliver burritos, they call it the Burrito Bomber. They paved the way for more drone delivery services to be developed. Food delivery giant, Foodpanda, just announced that they will be delivering food via drones in the next few months.
Burrito Bomber's drone delivery system is very simple, people can order through the app and the drone will drop their burrito in the exact coordinates of their location. Darwin Aerospace shared the science of how this drone delivery service works:
1. You connect to the Burrito Bomber web-app and order a burrito. Your smartphone sends your current location to our server, which generates a waypoint file compatible with the drone's autopilot.
2. We upload the waypoint file to the drone and load your burrito into our custom made Burrito Delivery Tube.
3. The drone flies to your location and releases the Burrito Delivery Tube. The burrito parachutes down to you, the drone flies itself home, and you enjoy your carne asada.
Due to aerospace regulations, the Burrito Bomber aka unmanned aircraft not was not allowed to do its job when it was first launched. Not until regulations have been set. It is supposed to fly by the end of 2015 or early 2016. The birth of the Burrito Bomber paved the way for more drone delivery services.
It looks like food delivery giant, FoodPanda will be the first company to successfully use drones to deliver food. According to Forbes, Ralf Wenzel, CEO of Foodpanda announced that they are almost ready to deliver food using a drone, "The technical solutions [of drone delivery] will be available over the next months,". The report also said that Foodpanda plans to utilize drone delivery services throughout all 24 markets covered by Foodpanda, including Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Thailand and Malaysia.
If Foodpanda will be able to launch this service in the next few months, as they have initially announced, they will hold the title for the first drone delivery service in the world.
This technology will soon take over more industries as it is also reported that other companies are building their own drone delivery systems like Amazon.
