Our team built a burger dropping drone for the Burger King India Launch Event using a modified Phantom 2 Vision + Drone fitted with custom gripper and electronics.
We modified the DJI Phantom 2 Vision + Drone by fitting it with a robotic gripper and custom electronics. The gripper was remotely triggered through the camera motion tilt while in mid-air using the DJI Vision App. The submitted video contains the whole technical description of this mod.
We also executed the project in under two weeks timeline and performed lots of field testing and corrections and payload testing in order for the Phantom to lift the weight of the Whopper burger. We worked 20 hrs for two weeks, even in darkness and then successfully did the launch for BurgerKing India at the Phoenix Mall in Lower Parel, Mumbai, India. The event was a great success and everyone absolutely loved the drone in action.
The objective was to have the drone hover in mid-air while the winner of the Whopper contestant below awaited having the burger dropped off by our modified Phantom above. Glory be to the Phantom!
- See more at: http://event.dji.com/dji-stories/content/1mw-burger-dropping-drone-burgerking-india-0#sthash.Lm9fha3t.dpuf
Comments
i think its 100% drones could be manual controlled. I thought that was a Amazon kinda delovery but appeared to be not. Flying phantom in buildings is dangerous due to the flight control has many cases of ahrs and mag heading disagreement and causes flyaway or crash.
Just to give you a little statistic - 90% of the so called drones in the commercial market today are remote controlled let alone the task of executing this project for BK in 10 days. Maybe you can get on a call with some leading drone manufacturers worldwide and see if they have a stock of drones that satisfy your autonomous cravings :)
you need a remote to delivery a package that defeat the hole purpose of being a "drone"
maybe the Slumdog Millionaire will get some free burgers some time, according to the chances of phantom's automatic return factory maintains functions...