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Delivery drone
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used to transport packages, food or other goods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A delivery drone is a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed to transport items such as packages, medicines, foods, postal mails, and other light goods.[2] Large corporations like Amazon, DHL and FedEx have started to use drone delivery services.[2] Drones were used effectively in the fight against COVID-19, delivering millions of vaccines and medical supplies across the globe.[3] Drone deliveries are highly efficient, significantly speeding up delivery times and avoiding challenges traditional delivery vehicles may encounter. Given their life-saving potential use cases for medical supplies in particular have become the most widely-tested type of drone delivery, with trials and pilot projects in dozens of countries such as Australia,[4] Canada,[5] Botswana,[6] Ghana, Uganda,[7] the UK,[8] the US[9] among others (see below).
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Delivery drones can be autonomous, semi-autonomous, or remote-controlled.[10] The most common types of drones are terrestrial and aerial, however, they can also be aquatic.[10]