7-Eleven Just Used a Drone To Deliver Slurpees and a Chicken Sandwich (roboticstrends.com)

An anonymous Slashdot reader write: A drone has autonomously delivered Slurpees, a chicken sandwich, doughnuts, hot coffee and candy from a Reno, Nevada 7-Eleven to a nearby home. The delivery was made "in a matter of minutes" to two busy working parents near their store in Reno, Nevada, and the drone hovered in place and gently lowered each package to the ground in the family's backyard.

"To find customers willing to have their order handled by a flying robot, the companies surveyed households within a one-mile radius of the store from which they planned to deliver," reports Tech Crunch. 7-Eleven partnered with drone-delivery company Flirtey, which has also used its drones to perform a ship-to-shore delivery of medical supplies . They're calling this flight the first FAA-approved drone delivery to a home and a historic milestone in commercial deliveries, and both companies plan to continue working together in the future to perform more testing on drone deliveries.

Comments

Falling problems

[phantomfive]

If drone delivery becomes common, is there going to be a problem with drones falling from the sky and hitting people on the head? I don't know the answer to that.

the biggest problem I see

[tomhath]

It will be interesting to see what happens when the drone tries to make a delivery at a house that has a dog. Most dogs I've had would just eat the chicken sandwich. But I've known a few that would have it out with the drone.

Re:the biggest problem I see

[ScentCone]

It's funny because the question is preposterous. If you allowed your dog to run loose in your front yard, and asked a pizza delivery guy to leave food on your front porch where the dog could get to it, would you be questioning the viability of this fancy new "people delivery pizza using cars" technology? No? I see.

Ignorant Posters

[Anonymous Coward]

The article has been up for over 1.5 hours with 40 posts and no one has noticed that the first link isn't actually a link.

How do I submit an application for a Slashdot editor position? I'd love to do nothing all day and get paid for it.

Re:Taxes and laws in 3,2,1...

[bjwest]

Tell that to all the Walmarts in Texas that can't sell booze.

That's due to religious oppression, not government. My county finally went wet after a long battle, spanning multiple voting cycles, with the religious fucks around here. You know what? The devil didn't set up camp on the County Courthouse like you'd though would happen according the them. As a matter of fact, the majority of crime is still committed by meth heads and there has been little to no change in alcohol related incidents. Still can't buy alcohol on Sundays though.. Fucking religious nuts pushing their beliefs on everyone else, then crying oppression when we try to do demand our right to do something they don't approve of.

Sorry 'bout that... /rant