Chipotle wants to drop a burrito on the head with a new drone delivery

Chipotle says he jumps on the drone delivery train. This week, the company announced a new pilot program in Texas which will test the viability of customer orders to turn off in their backyard.

A press release published Thursday makes the whole process quite easy with regard to hybrid drone-robot hybrid delivery burritos. Some customers of the Dallas Rowlette suburbs will be able to download the application for the zip line, the new partner of Chipotle drone and place their orders.

Then, the chipotle staff will place the food orders in places where they can be picked up by the drones, which will then fly to the customers’ homes. The company claims that Tyrolean drones will hover “about 300 feet in the air” while a small carrier that contains food is lowered to the ground.

The press release indicates that “a small number of Tyrolean users will have access to Zipotle from today, before a wider service launch in the coming weeks.”

We have officially unlocked the burritos🌯⚡

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The zip line has a highly famous assessment, had made a name for itself with air delivery of medical supplies in countries with mediocre infrastructure. In particular, the company has teamed up with the Rwandan government in 2016 to deliver blood products essential to distant hospitals.

The work of the company has considerably reduced the time it took to provide vital equipment to patients, Rwandan doctors said. Such applications of drone technology – to provide vital materials to people who need it – seem to be the exact type of the autonomous delivery industry.

On the other hand, pivotal deliveries at the Tyrolean in Burrito may not be the best use of its talents.

Thursday’s press release includes humorous comments from the executive TOP of the Zipline, Keller Rinaudo Cliffton. “With the zip line, you press a button, and a few minutes later, the food appears by magic-hot, fresh and ultra-fast,” said Cliffton, CEO and co-founder of Zipline. “From today, families in the Dallas The area can have food delivered by zipotle and served for lunch or dinner. What once had the impression of science fiction will soon become completely normal. »»

Okay, of course.

Of all new fashionable technological applications, my feeling is that grocery delivery via drone is easily one of the most awkward. For 90% of us, there is almost no predictable advantage to have a robot flying our items at home. The only real difference is that companies do not have to hire new livelirings, and now there are drones obstructing the air roads in your home.

That said, some studies say that drone delivery can reduce carbon emissions, although it is not clear how solid science is on this subject (for example, a recent study has revealed that big carbon savings between drone delivery and deliveries made by diesel trucks but, once again, most burritos are not delivered by diesel trucks).