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Drones as delivery robots have been mooted by a number of companies, including Flirtey Zookal & Amazon.
But drones are not a good mix with human beings, as some have found to their cost, including 18-month-old Oscar Webb, when he had an eye sliced in half by a drone.
Much of the danger of drones is due to the relative instability of flight, & propellors spinning at thousands of rpm. A robot with wheels would eliminate those dangers, & that is what Domino's used for its first trial delivery in New Zealand on 08 March 2016.
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