![]() Now you’ve been delivering for two years. John Koetsier: Hey, super happy to have you here. Today we’re chatting with Jonathan Bass, Wing’s head of marketing and communications. Google’s making it happen in a few locations around the world … but particularly in Australia, where Wing, an Alphabet company, has just hit a very significant new milestone. Drone delivery may seem very Ready Player One, it’s sci-fi, it’s rumored, it’s promised, but maybe not actually quite real. John Koetsier: Do you want sushi by drone? Now you can get it, especially if you live in Queensland, Australia. Probably 10 times more efficient than an electric car. This is about 50 times more efficient than a gas powered vehicle. We want to offset the quick trips with small items that we can perform more efficiently. Jonathan Bass: We’re not gonna replace the majority of ground delivery - that’s not our intention. (This transcript has been lightly edited for length and clarity.) Scroll down for a full transcript, or check out my Forbes story here …Īpple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Overcast Other podcasting platformsįull transcript: Google’s Wing drone delivery service starts mall-to-homes direct service In this edition of TechFirst, we’re chatting with Jonathan Bass, Wing’s head of marketing and communications. Wing is planning to scale globally and in the U.S., but are working out all the kinks and regulatory permissions. You watch it get closer on the app, and get a notification when it’s arriving. You order on an app, a retailer preps your item, attaches it to a drone, and it flies to you at 110 km/hour. Retailers don’t have to ship their products to a distribution center where they can be flown out by drone they can basically just ship it right out of their location in the mall.įor anyone using the service, it’s incredibly easy. This is a global first: rooftop drone stations at malls, with the first one in Australia. Today, however, they announced a major change: the creation of what I’m calling “droneports” on the roofs of malls. Wing has been delivering via drone at scale for about two years now from a central distribution center. For this reason, specialized drone service provider companies exist, and their significance will continue to grow, even if the automated UAV flight (i.e., without the need of a remote pilot) will become the industry standard.Do you want sushi delivery by drone? Ice cream or coffee in 2 minutes? Wing is Google’s drone division (OK, Alphabet’s!) and is doing just that right now in three locations around the world. When investing in their own drone fleet, many businesses discover that the cost of drone ownership is high and exceeds CAPEX in the UAV. The drone station was thus ready for further batch production and TRL-8 technology. ![]() Some minor modifications and DFM were made as part of the DVT (the initial engineering concept and design engineering practices of EnCata concerned manufacturability and cost-efficiency of the manufacturing process) In the DVT (design validation testing, equal to TRL-7 and TRL-8) the electronics were integrated as a large module and some PCBAs were respun. The assembled and tested alpha-prototype (TRL-6) then successfully passed field tests with the customer’s drone system and telecommunication software to achieve TRL-7. Individual cells were actively balanced with an additional circuit, providing reliable charging and longer battery life. In the second iteration, Li-ion batteries were used. The 1st iteration IC design received Li-Poly batteries where individual cells were passively balanced with resistors. In addition, a custom BMS (battery management system) had to be designed. ![]() Precision mechanics for hangar opening/closing, drone positioning table subsystems, and a custom 200 A peak (500 W power) charger were the particular engineering challenges we faced in achieving the TRL-5 development phase (equal to EVT). control “motherboard” controller the whole system.Initially (for the EVT, or engineering validation tests) 3 custom PCBA modules were designed:
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