Nowadays more and more inventions and developments are aimed at making our lives easier. Sometimes it turnes to be so difficult to force yourself to leave your cozy house to simply buy some food or walk the dog, that it becomes a real problem to cross the threshold. It often happens that daily routine can greatly affect the mood of an ordinary person, for whom a small stroll should not cause any difficulty. And now imagine a sick person, who lives alone and has nobody to buy him some medicine. What can be worse than the necessity to go to a pharmacy, when it is so hard to get out of bed.
Now the issue is solved, as medicine drone delivery has appeared.
On Nivember 1, UPS drone delivered the prescription medications from a CVS pharmacy in Cary, North Carolina, to a consumer’s home, and to a customer in a retirement community. Medicine was lowered on the ground with the usage of special winch and cable on the hight of 20 feet above the delivery destination.
These deliveries were made by M2 drone developed by UPS partner- Matternet and monitored by a remote operator in case smth went wrong.
UPS and Matternet partnership was established in March in order to deliver medical samples with a help of unmanned drones at WakeMed’s flagship hospital and campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. The partnership has already logged more than 1,500 drone deliveries at WakeMed.
“UPS is exploring and developing drone delivery in various industries, including some that need drone delivery to homes,” said company spokesperson Kyle Peterson.
Now UPS is planning to expand drone deliveries beyond healthcare facilities.
The main advantage of drone delivary is that it may be useful in rural residential areas where deliveries occur very far apart.
“Drone delivery has huge potential to get urgent or high-value items to exact locations quickly,” France said. “This is a potentially huge advantage in “last mile” delivery — it certainly won’t be viable for long-range deliveries. In the near term, most of the focus is on delivering high-value, urgent cargo, like prescriptions or even transplant organs, faster and — eventually — for lower cost.”
What about you? Do you see any disadvantages of such delivery?
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Sounds good! A great technology, especially for those people, who are disabled and not just lazy to go to the pharmacy shop, but they can’t due to their state of health. Medicine drone delivery can become a very useful and , obviously, important thing for lots of people.
Haha and there would be several people with anti-drone guns shooting them down like some of them do with Amazon drones already. But I mean, the idea and the concept is super duper cool. Especially, when it comes to emergencies.