Google is following retailer Amazon’s footsteps into the drone industry, in a move which has seen the search engine giant testing drone package deliveries in Australia’s outback, as part of the top-secret initiative called Project Wing.
The drones were developed at the Google X labs where the firm’s wearable technology and automated car were also masterminded.
The automated crafts have a total wingspan of 1.5m on which there will be four electric propellers. They will follow pre-programmed flight routes although Google claims the drones slightly deviate from the course to account for heavy winds and other airborne vehicles.
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Source: The Drum
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