Beer delivery drones grace a music festival.
At the OppiKoppi music festival in South Africa they’ll be using drones to deliver beer to people in the crowd.
The revelers will order up cold ones on their phones and through the magic of robots and GPS frosty beers will parachute into the crowd according to precise coordinates – ideally, anyway.
At this time the octorotor is being directed manually but there are big automated plans for its future.
Once the FAA embraces commercial drones in the US, the beer delivery system will be a nice addition to the Burrito Bomber, an on-call device also waiting in the wings.
The brainchild of Darwin Aerospace, the Burrito Bomber made its debut in 2012 at the AngelHack hackathon.
The drone finds you based on your phone location and then drops a parachute-assisted burrito in a tube down to you.
It’s not just beer and burrito lovers who are excited about the future possibilities of commercial drones. Experts anticipate the industry’s value will be at nearly 82 billion dollars by 2025.
Other trades eagerly awaiting the FAA’s regulatory decisions on the unmanned crafts are agriculture and filmmaking.
