Mumbai Restaurant Delivers Pizza by Drone

Re:Mumbai Restaurant Delivers Pizza by Drone by ColinWright on Friday May 23, 2014 @04:01AM (#7788404)

Fourth time lucky - I wonder why the previous submissions have got no traction at all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7784669

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7780967

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7779411

As alphakappa[0] says[1], it's just a one-off demo that doesn't show solutions to any of the real problems. It damn near hit that lamp-post, bizarrely flew under an arch, and, all-in-all, it didn't seem automated in any real sense.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alphakappa

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7788395

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Re:Mumbai Restaurant Delivers Pizza by Drone by votingprawn on Friday May 23, 2014 @04:08AM (#7788420)

> it didn't seem automated in any real sense.

From the GPS/Compass mount and the flashing LED I think its a pretty safe bet that it's a NAZA flight controller, which doesn't offer any autonomy (beyond stabilisation and GPS assisted position hold). So someone is flying it by remote control, like any RC aircraft.

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Re:Mumbai Restaurant Delivers Pizza by Drone by prawn on Friday May 23, 2014 @06:10AM (#7788677)

That it's a thin ad and little more probably tells us why previous submissions got little traction.

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