Flytrex adds Automated Pickup system to speed drone delivery

Drone delivery startup Flytrex has announced an upgrade of the method it uses to upload food orders destined for customer households, as part of an effort to reduce processing and transport time and permit the company to continue expanding its aerial business activity.

Today Flytrex revealed the introduction of its Autonomous Pickup system for restaurants and other food retailers it provides drone deliveries to, swapping what had been the manual uploading of meals at central UAV operating locations. Instead, employees of partnering businesses will now attach prepared items to a secure hook lowered directly down from a craft hovering above their store, with goods then immediately flown and lowered to the yards, driveways, or residences of waiting consumers.

Flytrex says the innovation will cut considerable time off drone delivery of food orders – around five minutes from transport that usually ranges from about 15 minutes down to the…