FLYING FEAST: This company is using drones to deliver food to hungry customers, taking to the skies with takeout meals from local restaurants and essentials from grocery stores.
Manna drone lowering a paper bag with groceries by rope during a delivery to a house in Oranmore.
Most of the restaurants in Oranmore have signed onto the trial. Anne Forde, owner of the Poppy Seed Cafe, said they were sometimes sending around between 10 and 20 deliveries by drone each day. Manna's CEO Bobby Healy said the company plans to expand to cover 150,000 customers in the next 18 months before launching commercially in two European countries in 2023.
For now the drones also only fly in calm skies, although the company says they are capable of handling the daunting weather common to Ireland's west coast.
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