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Dr ones - To - Go A look at the benefits of the new delivery method

By Abelardo Surigao III

Matternet manufactures drones designed to fly over urban environments. In the easy-to-use interface for sending and receiving packages 24/7/365. Automated

D

adapt to it? elivery drones were created

Companies that provide drone

customer, Workhorse?s Horsefly does exactly that. However, precisely why build a delivery

with the intention to deliver

products, like Matternet,

packages quickly through the air,

Workhorse, and Delivery Drone

soaring across the skies and

Canada (DDC) aim to provide fast,

Drones cheapen the cost to deliver

saving lives, especially when

reliable, and cheap drones to join

goods, an important factor in the

applied into medical use.

the delivery industry. Drones are

delivery industry according to John

Nowadays, delivery drones have

highly customizable, meaning that

Graber, head of Workspace's

features and abilities that can

various applications can be

Aerospace group leading

change the delivery industry and

implemented into them. For

development of drone delivery.

provide people with their

example, the Matternet M2 Drone is

necessities quickly and efficiently.

focused on transporting medical

However, is the time coming where

supplies from one person or

they could become more

hospital to another. In the

commonplace, and at the same

commercial industry, which works

time, where people will have to

to deliver retail goods to the

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drone at all?

?Companies believe 1to 2% of all delivered packages are able to ship by drones,? Graber said. ?That is over 5 million a day. Drone deliveries cost less than 10 cents a


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