Autonomy is the future of drones
Check out my colleague Rick Rys' latest blog discussing how the promise of autonomy for drones opens many game changing business opportunities. Package delivery by autonomous drone is already happening. One example is a new company that can deliver life saving medicines to remote locations throughout a country: https://flyzipline.com/product/. USPS, Amazon, Google, and many other firms are betting drone delivery will be a success and investing heavily. Intel, ARM, and Qualcomm are developing new computer processors for drones. Apparently the drug smuggling and prison delivery business has seen a few anonymous startups too. Another example is Matternet https://mttr.net/. They are partnering with Mercedes to create a drone delivery system.
Just a few weeks ago I took a glider flight with a group from Aurora Flight Sciences. This company can convert most any aircraft to a drone or build new drones from scratch. It is only a matter of time when a drone will be able to pick you up at your house and deliver you where you want to go. The futuristic “Jetson” age is arriving fast! The drone delivers you to work and you put your feet on the desk while you press a single button at an automated factory just like George Jetson did in the famous cartoon series in 1962. Still not convinced we are entering the Jetson age? Maybe you will like to go to work in the sleek Lilium one of many small aircraft based on drone technology that are in development. This looks a lot like the Jetson vehicle, but a little slower: vertical takeoff/landing, 248 MPH and 310 mile cruising range for 2 passengers. Just plug it in to recharge it or maybe you just use drones as a service, why pay to own one and have it sit idle for long periods.
Maybe you would find the emergency drone patient delivery service of value instead of waiting for the “flight for life helicopter” or maybe a drone delivers the defibrillator or other critical medicines like snake bite antidotes or Narcan for an Opiate drug overdose.
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