Behind the scenes of drone food delivery in Finland | TechCrunch
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- Finnish startup Huuva has teamed up with DoorDash-owned Wolt to deliver food by drone.
- Drones can carry around 4.4 pounds, and Manna can send two of them at once.
- Unlike drivers, drones won’t get stuck in traffic at lunch time.
- Regular deliveries currently cost €5-6 each (approximately $6-8), while drone deliveries could get down to €1 ($1.16) Manna’s drones were already thoroughly tested for wind and rain, in such quantities that snow also falls under the same umbrella.
Finlands weather is notoriously unfriendly; but even so, your food order might be delivered by a drone.On a rainy day after Helsinkis annual Slush conference, Finnish entrepreneur Ville Leppl too [+5088 chars]
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