In France, test the delivery of newspapers by drones



    In France, in the near future, a futuristic picture may become real: a compact drone flies up to the house, carefully drops the attached bag of newspapers onto a green lawn and, with a little rustling sound of propellers, flies to the next house ( fantasy ).

    The French postal service La Poste Groupe has begun testing a morning delivery service for drones like Parrot, which is a modification of a quadcopter costing about $ 300 already known on Habr and which can be controlled using iOS or Android devices. Only in this case, the application of the device looks more serious and practically valuable - Parrot.com entered into a formal agreement with the French post.

    However, while drones have serious limitations - an extremely small radius of action (50 meters) and only half an hour of battery life. It is also not entirely clear how delivery will take place: whether the drone will be completely autonomous - that is, whether it will know where and at what time to fly up or if it will be controlled by the postman from its iPad. Also interesting is the mechanics of how exactly the newspapers will be "dumped".



    Testing is scheduled for May and in total a solid batch of drones - 20 pieces will participate in the project.

    In flight, the "postman drone" looks like this:



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