Flytrex is one of the first companies trying to work out the kinks in the drone delivery space. CEO Yariv Bash predicts the channel will take off once regulatory standards are in place in the next year or two.
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Iceland company AHA and Flytrex launched drone delivery in 2017. Now, Flytrex is testing food deliveries in a Raleigh, North Carolina, suburb with an undisclosed restaurant partner and an objective of providing information to help develop regulatory framework to the Federal Aviation Administration. In April, Google’s parent company Alphabetto start delivering goods via drone in Virginia. The company’s service is already underway in Australia and includes foodservice establishments.
What’s the draw here? According to Bash, speed is the biggest hook. He estimates that drone delivery takes 5 to 10 minutes, versus 10 to 30 minutes With this math, drones should be able to complete about 15 deliveries per hour, versus about three per hour via car in densely populated areas. So, in theory at least, there is an attractive potential of higher volumes for restaurants using the service.
“Those fees get very expensive because they go toward labor. For our system, a single human can make a lot more deliveries flying the drone than with a car or a bike,” he said.
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