Google Is Launching Its Drone Delivery Service In 2017

When it comes to innovation, Google is ahead of the curve. They’ve been testing things like the internet balloon project, which hopes to give everyone on the planet internet through these floating internet balloons. Google Glass, which was a wearable computer device… that didn’t exactly pan out the way they wanted it to. But now they are testing something they call “Project Wing.” This project hopes to be a drone delivery service put into the air by 2017.

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Google hopes to launch delivery drones to ship products and services to your door within 30 minutes of your order. We’ve all seen the Amazon Prime drones delivery service commercial, but that sorta fizzled and was quickly forgotten. Google hopes to be the first one to actually do it.

“Our goal is to have commercial business up and running in 2017,” said David Vos, project leader, during the announcement. But there have been little detail how Google can roll out something this massive in such a short period of time. How big of a package can the drones carry? Can I order a grand piano and expect a drone the size of a helicopter to airlift it to my front lawn in 30 minutes? Doubt it. The rumor from the BBC is that Google’s project Wing octocopters — secretly developed by Google’s X Lab — could ferry 2.3kg of goods to customers within 30 minutes of an order being placed.

So no grand pianos, but maybe a few video games and a juicer. If they can pull this off, expect to see a sky full of drones delivering things to you neighbors by 2017.

(Via The Tech Portal)

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