Flying pizza! Don’t be surprised if next time a drone instead of a delivery boy brings a hot, delicious pizza to your doorstep. American restaurant chain Domino’s Pizza is testing the feasibility of octocopter drones to deliver pizzas. The delivery is masterminded by T + Biscuits, an English creative agency that was hired to test prototypes.
Branded as the DomiCopter, the current prototype can deliver two large pizzas in about 10 minutes within a 6-km radius of the store. The DomiCopter has eight spinning blades and includes the standard thermal insulation bag that’s carried around by Domino’s Pizza delivery drivers.
Developed by a company called Aerosight, this type of drone is primarily used for capturing broadcast quality video with cameras. No flying permits are needed to operate the drone up to 126 metres off the ground, according to NBC News; only permission of the landowner is required.
“If anything, it went quicker than a pizza boy,” said. “We were amazed at how easy it was going to be,” T + Biscuits founder Tom Hatton said, referencing the time.