Successful autonomous drone delivery in urban Nevada - Carried its cargo... on a rope

03/26/2016 - 18:02

Jonathan Vanian | @JonathanVanian


Flying robots are one step closer to bringing you anything you want.

Drone deliveries may be having some trouble taking off in the Unites States, but that doesn’t mean that they’ve been totally grounded.

Drone startup Flirtey said on Friday that it completed the first federally-sanctioned drone delivery in a U.S. urban area without the help of a human to manually steer it.

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