UPS Tests Residential Delivery Via Drone In Florida

Posted on February 23, 2017 by mailomg in Memo 85, Uncategorized // 0 Comments

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UPS announced today that it has successfully tested a drone that launches from the top of a UPS package car, autonomously delivers a package to a home and then returns to the vehicle while the delivery driver continues along the route to make a separate delivery.
UPS conducted the test on Monday in Lithia, Fla. with Workhorse Group (NASDAQ: WKHS), an Ohio-based battery-electric truck and drone developer. Workhorse built the drone and the electric UPS package car used in the test … (Click to read more)

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