Drone delivery service is remarkable in speed and comfort. It’s becoming the next fast-growing industry. Though, the Automation of food delivery services is replacing humans.

It still needs human labor to monitor flights, pack parcels of the products, maintenance staff both for hardware and software.

Recently, Wing Company provides Drone services celebrated 100,000 deliveries with a burst of media fanfare.

The company’s two biggest trial sites are running in Australia, one in Canberra and the other in Queensland.

In the advertisement, wing tells a simple story of barista coffee and roast chooks dropped. It has shown that you can hope on the App, order, and a drone will bring your product to your doorstep. It’s quick, Covid-safe, and contactless.

How Wing Drones Works?

The wing is owned by Alphabet, the parent company of Google. Hence, it has a huge resource. Also, drone regulations are written, and the wing is setting the new aerial infrastructure.

It’s simple and works like any other delivery service. Sign up on its App through your smartphone, place your order. Once you place an order, your nearest local station packs the product.

After packing, the product is flown to your place by Wing’s drones. Upon arrival, the drone automatically detaches the product. Which makes it contactless.

Whose labor does it replace?

By 2030, the drone delivery market is expected to grow and the changes are visible. The expectations are 39 percent of the market share in 2030.

 For now, the drone use in medical supplies, food, transport packages, and other goods.

Commercial use of drone delivery impacts inventory, transportation, and distribution. Similarly, the people working in these areas might lose their jobs. However, human resource is need for other things such as drone management.

Indeed, drone delivery is expensive, and it can have battery defects, privacy issues, and other technical problems. Also, weather conditions can have a greater impact on drone delivery services.

Moreover, it has hidden environmental costs. It has potential risk to the birds, and packaging means more waste and costs habitats from heavy aerial traffic.

However, Deloitte modeling from 2020 suggests that done delivery cost less than half the current rate of an e-bike delivery.

Meanwhile, getting a Chocolate jar at your doorstep, within 10 minutes might seems a neat idea, but the benefit is not enough.

Imagine, city skies crowded with drones impacting habitat, communities, and your privacy.