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Domino set to start pizza delivery with drones

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8 years ago

August 25, 2016

Domino set to start pizza delivery with drones

Fast food giants, Domino’s ran a test flight on the outskirts of Auckland on Thursday, successfully demonstrating a delivery system where a drone lowers the pizza – inside a box, obviously – to the ground via a winch.

In a bid to show just how serious it is about its plan to offer pizza deliveries by drone, Domino’s invited to the demonstration a representative from the country’s civil aviation authority as well as transport minister Simon Bridges. And they both turned up.

The delivery marked the final step in Flirtey’s approval process for Domino’s delivery plan, with flights to customer homes expected to launch later this year from a select New Zealand store … except that it does still have to be green-lighted by the authorities.

“With the increased number of deliveries we make each year, we were faced with the challenge of ensuring our delivery times continue to decrease and that we strive to offer our customers new and progressive ways of ordering from us,” said Don Meij of Domino’s Pizza Australia. Hang on, that name rings a bell. Ah yes, he’s the fella behind DRU, the diminutive delivery droid that the company also wants to use to deliver its food.

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