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Mumbai eatery delivers pizza using an unmanned drone
THE financial capital, notorious for its traffic snarls, has achieved a first in the country after a city-based pizza outlet used an unmanned drone to execute a delivery by taking the aerial route recently.
"All of us had read about (global e-commerce giant) Amazon's plans of using drones. We successfully carried out a test-delivery by sending a pizza to a customer located 1.5 km away from our outlet on May II." Francesco's Pizzeria chief executive Mikhel Rajani told PTI on Wednesday.
He stressed that this was only a test-flight but its results confirm that it can be used routinelying few years. A four-roior drone took off with the order from its outlet in central Mumhai's Lower Pa rel area and delivered it to a high rise building in adjacent Worli area, Rajani said, claiming that it is for the first time that the ubiquitous drone has been used for such a purpose in the country.
The eatery. which lias been in operations for two years, has made a video of the delivery, he said, adding an auto engineer friend helped with making the flight possible.
Rajani, who comes from a family that is into textiles, said the drone saves lime and costs for a company like his. which would otherwise depend on a two-wheeler borne agent to deliver the pizzas.
"What we have done now will be common place in the next four-five years," he said.
"All of us had read about (global e-commerce giant) Amazon's plans of using drones. We successfully carried out a test-delivery by sending a pizza to a customer located 1.5 km away from our outlet on May II." Francesco's Pizzeria chief executive Mikhel Rajani told PTI on Wednesday.
He stressed that this was only a test-flight but its results confirm that it can be used routinelying few years. A four-roior drone took off with the order from its outlet in central Mumhai's Lower Pa rel area and delivered it to a high rise building in adjacent Worli area, Rajani said, claiming that it is for the first time that the ubiquitous drone has been used for such a purpose in the country.
The eatery. which lias been in operations for two years, has made a video of the delivery, he said, adding an auto engineer friend helped with making the flight possible.
Rajani, who comes from a family that is into textiles, said the drone saves lime and costs for a company like his. which would otherwise depend on a two-wheeler borne agent to deliver the pizzas.
"What we have done now will be common place in the next four-five years," he said.
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