A pizza chain in northern Russian began delivering pizzas by drone in the city of Syktyvkar and was witnessed by people who applauded in the city main square.
According to the company, the drones can fly up to 40 kilometers, or 25 miles per hour and a device that lowers pizza from the altitude of thirty metres while it’s still hot.
The drone deliveries will initially be used for active sales in the city parks, beaches and a university campus by tablet-yielding pizza salesmen who will take an order and request a drone to arrive.
However, the company plans to eliminate any human input in the pizza delivery very soon. The drone is equipped with a video camera monitored by the pizza restaurant’s manager who will call the customer at the time
of delivery to make sure the pizza is received by those who paid for it.
The chopper drones involved in the pizza delivery were developed by a Russian company who says they can fly at a speed of up to 40 kilometres per hour.
Chain owners claim that previous attempts of pizza drone deliveries in India and the US were just staged events to create promo videos, whereas they plan to make drone deliveries a regular everyday business.
Dodo Pizza’s founder, Fyodor Ovchinnikov, has been pleased with the new delivery method “Today for the first time in the world we have done a commercial pizza delivery (by drone).
“It was not just a PR stunt, it is a real delivery that people paid money for and our drone was delivering pizzas”, Ovchinnikov said.
The company said that on the first day, six commercial pizza deliveries were made by drone.
The chopper drones involved in the pizza delivery were developed by a Russian company who says they can fly at a speed of up to 40 kilometres per hour.
Chain owners claim that previous attempts of pizza drone deliveries in India and the U.S. were just staged events to create promo videos, whereas they plan to make drone deliveries a regular everyday business.
