UK supermarket giant Tesco is set to launch a drone delivery service in partnership with Mana Arrow. Through this service, the company's drones will deliver the goods to the customer's house within half an hour.
The BBC reports that from next month, drones will take goods from Tesco's Oranmore store in County Galway, Ireland and deliver them to surrounding areas.
Ireland will give the drones to Tesco. The drone-based product delivery company is already testing drone delivery services in Ireland.
At the bottom of the drone, the drones will fly at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour with a maximum of four kilograms of cargo. At this speed the drone would take three minutes to deliver the goods at a distance of one mile.
Mana had planned to test the food supply service in March. But instead of planning for the coronavirus epidemic, the company started supplying drugs.
Mana is currently supplying medicines and other emergency items through drones in Manigal town.
In 2016, for the first time in the UK, US e-commerce giant Amazon delivered goods commercially via drones. Within 13 minutes of receiving the order, the company delivered the product from a Cambridge warehouse to a local resident.
In April 2020, the UK government announced that larger drones could deliver emergency supplies to hospitals on the Isle of Wight from the mainland.
Meanwhile, many residents have opposed some drone tests. They claim that the drones make a lot of noise.
According to a report by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers last year, only a quarter of adults in the UK support the use of drones for safety and noise concerns.