Uber now launches its newly designed food delivery drones for Ubereats

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Uber now launches its newly designed food delivery drones for Ubereats food delivery services. The company has designed a new look for its food delivery drones and reviewing up to test this new drone delivery service for Ubereats in San Diego in 2020.


The company plans for its drone which utilizes innovative rotating wings with six rotors to better enable the transition between vertical takeoff and forward flight.


Rotating wings is a feature more commonly seen in flying car prototypes and rarely in drones.


Better developments and the basic research in drones can really change and improve people's lives.


At any restaurant, there's seven people waiting to pick up food to drive it to somebody's house. It's a great convenience for people. But, if you could make more convenient with drones that cut they're even faster that's a phenomenal improvement for the region.


Uber explains that the rotors are positioned vertically for takeoff and landing, but can then rotate into the forward position. The company has designed it for increased speed and efficiency during cruise flight. The company started expanding their test operations.


The company can start with an order or originating through the ubereats app. Except that the orders load the food into a specially designed packaging, that packaging is attached to the drone. The drone then flies a simulated delivery mission and drops off the package at the location. And then the package is delivered by the couriers to the final destination.


The rotating wing is similar to the one designed by Mark Moore - a NASA veteran and VTOL expert for the company's air taxi prototype.


Both the drone and the air taxi project are part of Uber that elevate the firm's ambitious play to bring its ride and delivery service to the sky.


The company wants to perform test flights of the taxis in 2020 with the commercial launch in 2023.


The cargo capacity for the drone is a meal for two. Uber says adding that the drone has already passed its critical design review and is expected to take flight before the end of the year.


Earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration gave Uber the green light to begin testing drone delivery in San Diego.


The drone is designed to perform a maximum delivery leg in eight minutes including loading and unloading.


Its cruising altitude will be below 400 feet in order to comply with existing drone rules. It will have a total flight range of 18 miles without a delivery and 12 miles with one, and the drone can hover in wind speeds up to 30 miles per hour.


Drone delivery is moving from concept to reality with a spate of new trials.


Last week, Alphabet swing deployed its first delivery drones in Virginia - are the major companies like Amazon and UPS, are also in the early stages of experimentation.







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