Watch a test of Google’s Project Wing delivery drone
Despite recent setbacks, Google seems to be charging ahead with Project Wing, its drone-based delivery service. A new video by Aaref Hilaly of Sequoia Capital shows one of the Google X initiative’s drones dropping off a package and flying off:
Watching baby steps of drone delivery, courtesy of Google X (5 miles in 5 mins is the promise) #zg15pic.twitter.com/Xk2KyTRURP
— Aaref Hilaly (@aaref) October 19, 2015
Hilaly says that Google promises the drones can travel five miles in five minutes.
Google X launched Project Wing last summer, mirroring Amazon’s own drone delivery efforts from months earlier.
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