Google’s Project Wing partners with two new businesses in Australia to trial delivery drones in residential area

Briefing

October 17, 2017

Briefing	Project Wing Delivery – Google planning to test drone delivery to individual homes in Australia, collaborating with Guzman y Gomez, Mexican food chain, and Chemist Warehouse, pharmacy chain Lenient Australian Regulations – Country provides fertile testing ground for drone delivery technology due to more relaxed regulatory environment, unlike strict FAA regulations in U.S. Aircraft Sensor Algorithms – Exposing drone sensors to new environment aims to create smarter algorithms in navigating aircraft for future deliveries Expected Outcome – Aims to gather helpful information from test partners to improve logistic service for various types of merchants
Accelerator	Drones
Market Disruption	Next-Generation Logistics
Sector	Cross-sector
Organization	Google Inc.
Source	Burgess, J., "Testing in the Australian skies", Medium, https://medium.com/; Toh, M., "Alphabet drones will drop burritos into people's yards in Australia", CNN, http://www.cnn.com/; Statt, N., "Alphabet’s Project Wing drones will deliver burritos to Australian homes", The Verge, http://www.theverge.com/; AcceleratingBiz analysis
Original Publication Date	October 16, 2017

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