Wing launching UAS delivery service in Queensland, Australia

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Wing, a subsidiary of Google’s parent corporation Alphabet, has announced that it will soon begin using UAS to deliver various items such as fresh bread, hot coffee and food items directly to homes in Queensland, Australia in just minutes.

The service will start in Logan, which is one of Australia’s fastest growing communities and home to the eighth largest population in Australia. Wing attributes several factors to what made Logan attractive for this service.

“One of the things we’ve learned from our first several thousand deliveries in Australia is that families with young children seem to particularly enjoy our service,” Wing says.

“They tell us the convenience and ease of air delivery saves them having to bundle the kids up in the car to drive to the shops.”

Wing notes that Logan has a “booming” population of young families, so it is “excited to see if they find drone delivery as beneficial as other Australian parents.”

Because Logan is also one of the fastest growing areas in Australia, Wing also believes that its air delivery service can help cut back on the traffic congestion and air pollution commonly associated with such growth.

Another reason why Wing selected Queensland as the location for this service is because the state is at the “forefront of drone technology leadership,” Wing says, as Queensland’s government recently released the Queensland Drone Strategy. Queensland also hosts the annual World of Drones Congress, which brings together industry and academic thought leaders from across the globe.

Wing says that it will work with various businesses in Logan to begin making deliveries to a small group of homes in the suburbs of Crestmead and Marsden. Wing expects to expand its service to more customers in the coming months after it has had the chance to meet more of the Logan community and “hear what they would like to see from an air delivery service,” Wing says.