It’s a bird…It’s a plane…It’s an edible aid drone!
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Edible drones filled with food, water or medicine could soon become indispensable in humanitarian emergencies by delivering live-saving supplies to remote areas hit by natural disasters or conflict, their designers said on Monday.
With 50 kg (110 lb) of food stocked inside its compartments, each drone costing 150 pounds ($187) would be able to deliver enough supplies to feed up to 50 people per day, they said.
The frame of the prototype version of the drone – called Pouncer – is made of wood but the designers are planning to use edible materials in the next version.
“Food can be component to build things,” Nigel Gifford, an ex-army catering officer and founder of UK-based Windhorse Aerospace, the company behind the design, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
“You fly (the drone) and then eat it,” he said in a phone interview.
Source: Reuters (link opens in a new window)
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