On a lunch break last month, a small custom-built octacopter made a 10-minute flight through the city of Guildford, outside of London. Its special cargo: two large pepperoni pizzas.
The delivery was masterminded by a T + Biscuits, an English creative agency that was hired by Domino's to test prototypes. Read more here
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Cool, Domino's new camera teleportation technology, nice!
(cam02 front boom to the front-right boom, then to the back boom, and so forth).
Well obviously it's "faked".
The autopilot system is a DJI WKM (easy to spot when you see the silver status LED block), and while you can upgrade the system to get waypoint navigation, there is no support for auto landing and takeoff positions other then home. But that's not the point when you are just trying to demonstrate a concept and generate public awareness.
. . . pretty well staged, though, I have to say.
I take the opposite view: It is exactly this type of vision that will enable small robotic aircraft to be accepted as a useful and valuable tool by the public. The contest here is "Ethics of Progress", and is the debate between: Should we allow powerful technologies to develop which *might* be used destructively, yet which allow for vast improvement in human quality of life. Will robotic aircraft pizza delivery happen? Yes. Will there be issues such as the UAV being stolen, malfunctions which crash said vehicle into people, and other issues? Yes. But is it worth it? If you could have an AED drone show up a minute after you make an emergency call; if getting packages delivered in 1 day instead of 3 days is cool, and if all the other uses of the concept outweigh the flaws, then yes!
The question of if this will happen is already known: As long as society keeps improving and growing, it will. The real question is when.
Video with a few points on Ethics of Progress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=95KhuS...
. . . It's pretty hilarious how gullible some people are.
looking carefully at the video, it is pretty obvious that it is fake. Photoshopped in some way (multiple scenes taken from cameras where, in other scenes no camera is present, etc.). The scene where it appears to be taken from another aircraft altogether, not likely.
because this tipe of think that small UAV will be banned .
do you really think it will be possible in furure ? Its a joke.
i dont want this kind of think flying above my head.
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