Timbré, a Singapore-based restaurant chain, hopes to expand its workforce to include drone waiters by the end of this year. (Your aerial waiter can carry four pounds of food and drink. You decide which of the following is which. The hazards haven’t stopped dozens of companies from running trials-or staging publicity stunts. So how plausible are delivery drones, really? Flying packages in an urban area is fraught with challenges: Go too high and the drone could interfere with an airliner’s airspace too low and it has to navigate around buildings and trees-not to mention people who would like to snag a drone in addition to its package. Under today’s Federal Aviation Administration regulations, operators may apply for a Section 333 Exemption, which allows them “to perform commercial operations in low-risk, controlled environments.” Significantly, the rules bar operators “from allowing any object to be dropped from” a drone.
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But two years ago on “60 Minutes,” when Jeff Bezos showed a warehouse full of drones stamped with the Amazon arrow and announced half-hour commercial delivery by as early as 2017, the possibilities for cargo drones seemed to instantly expand. Drones have been in the delivery business since they were invented, delivering data, imagery, and, more recently, ordnance.
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