UPS Tries Arming Its Brown-Clad Drivers With an Octocopter Drone
- Home delivery tested with package at Florida blueberry farm
- ‘Rolling warehouse’ system launches aircraft from atop trucks
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United Parcel Service Inc. sees a day when your latest purchase may be dropped off not by a brown-clad delivery driver, but by an octocopter drone.
The world’s largest courier took a step closer to that future on Monday, launching an unmanned aerial vehicle from the roof of a UPS truck about a quarter-mile to a blueberry farm outside Tampa, Florida. The drone dropped off a package at a home on the property, and returned to the truck, which had moved about 2,000 feet.