An Australian university textbook rental outfit called Zookal has promised to deliver its wares by drone. Zookal has teamed with another Sydney startup, unmanned aerial vehicle outfit Flirtey, to deliver books.
Customers order books using their smartphone and once loaded Flirtey’s drone homes in on that device thanks to some GPS wizardry. Flirtey’s birds are hexacopters and can fly even if they lose one rotor.