The company hopes to manage 'millions' of deliveries at lower costs.
, using drones in a network will increase efficiency, and the company tests its method with up to 1,000 shipments daily in Logan, Australia.
Wing CEO Adam Woodworth says Wing Delivery Network will look "more like an efficient data network than a traditional transportation system".Wing Delivery Network's drones can take pickup and delivery jobs back-to-back on demand without reporting back to an origination base. Wing Delivery Network offers a decentralized logistics platform that can autonomously assign tasks to a fleet of drones within a metro region.
The drones themselves, the pads where they can take off and land when needed for charging, and Autoloader stations make up the Wing Delivery Network. Retailers employees can load a prepared order onto autoloaders that have been put in the parking lots. Then, without anyone waiting, an available drone can arrive and lower a rope to grab it.The system is designed to scale gracefully as well.
There are limitations. Even for decentralized systems, drone regulations aren't necessarily ready to manage autonomous delivery. Due to legal limitations,have only completed a small number of deliveries. There's also no guarantee that companies will be willing to spend money on drones and modify their curbside pickup areas.
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