Google parent Alphabet plans this month to use drones to deliver burritos to a small number of staff and students at Virginia Tech, the company said.
Drones from Alphabet’s “X” research lab will ferry the burritos from a commercial food truck to a worker several hundred feet away, who will then distribute the orders to waiting customers, Alphabet said.
The drones will fly on an automated route over a fenced-off field near Virginia Tech’s campus and remain in sight of an operator who can take control of the aircraft – and hopefully the burritos – if necessary.
“We want to learn how people feel when they’re receiving a package by air,” said X chief Astro Teller in a blog post. “Technology is shaped and changed as it makes contact with the real world.”
Yep – and so may be the shape of human heads as they are impacted by flying burritos and drone bits in the event of a disaster. Extra chilli, anyone?
