Take-out coffee at a new height! Google drone delivers hot coffee in three minutes.

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Drone delivery service, and opened up a new field, that is, hot coffee can also be delivered home! Google's parent company, a startup, recently conducted a drone delivery experiment on the outskirts of Canberra, the Australian capital, where people can greet their coffee and meals at the door within minutes as long as they order food on their mobile phones. But the experiment, which has attracted global attention, has split town residents as the opposition complains that drones come and go in the sky, causing not only noise pollution, but also safety concerns and privacy concerns.

Drone delivery is not uncommon, but you may not have seen it. You can airlift a cup of hot coffee home in three minutes.

Coffee shop manager Davis: "I'm surprised it came true. To be honest, you can get it in three minutes after ordering coffee. It's kind of funny."

And this is Google's parent company Alphabet, its startup Project Wing, which recently conducted drone delivery experiments on the outskirts of Canberra, the Australian capital.

Bodin Johnson, field operations manager at Wing: "I want us to experiment with a service that allows people to see this one, replace cars, make roads safer, and reduce carbon emissions."

In fact, in recent years, many technology companies have been very interested in using drones to deliver goods. In 2016, Amazon, the leader of e-commerce, took the lead in completing the first commercial test flight of drones in the UK. The following year, the drones of the mainland e-commerce company JD.com also officially set sail. This experiment can be said to be a new field, because the items delivered include hot coffee, hot meals, as well as some hardware parts and medicines.

Coffee shop manager Davis: "We are confident that the quality of the goods delivered to our guests will remain the same."

If you look at the name of this coffee shop, it's not "espresso" but "expresso", because this restaurant, which already offers quick orders, is now working with Google to try more convenient drone coffee. Although it hasn't started to make a profit so far, the store sees the technology potential of the future and the "drone regulars" that are slowly accumulating.

Strickland, a user of the drone delivery service: "it's really difficult for young families with children to go down and buy a cup of coffee and leave their three children in the car."

At present, in addition to this coffee shop, there is another Mexican restaurant in which people can order food and coffee as long as they pick up their mobile phones and open the app.

Coffee shop manager Davis: "We receive orders, make coffee, pack them together, pack them, and put them on the drone. It takes three minutes from the customer to place the order to get the coffee."

The drones then deliver the meals to the delivery range chosen by the user, and these drones fly entirely on their own and do not require human control, because they will use GPS to locate and deliver the goods according to the location where the customer placed the order; if any unexpected situation is detected during the flight, the drones will land on the ground on their own.

What are the benefits of using drones to deliver goods? In addition to reducing delivery time, replacing trucks with drones also reduces energy consumption by about 6 per cent, and in Canberra alone, business costs can be saved by about $9 million a year, according to one statistic. Although no accidents related to the experiment have been reported so far, residents are not only concerned about safety, but also, according to the Australian Civil Aviation Authority.

Anti-drone delivery service resident Gillesby: "it's like a Formula one car, it's really irritating."

An anti-drone group has even been set up in the area, one of the reasons is that annoying noise, especially on weekends, when the noise is at its heaviest, has been restless since 8 a.m., and there will be 10 drone flights in about two and a half hours.

Anti-drone delivery service resident Gillesby: "it keeps going back and forth, back and forth."

An innovative experiment has brought this small community to global attention, but it has also split local residents into two factions because of the controversy over privacy issues in addition to noise pollution and safety concerns.

Boding Johnson, Wing Field Operations Manager: "our drones only take very low-resolution photos and are only used for navigation purposes, and the cameras can't see everyone instantly, the equivalent of an airplane's black box, and will only disassemble when problems occur."

In November last year, the anti-drone group raised a joint signature of more than 1,000 people and submitted it to the local parliament, but the industry already had a new plan to move to Finland this spring to conduct similar drone delivery experiments.

Strickland, a user of drone delivery service: "I think drone delivery will be everywhere in the next five years."

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