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Just Eat Ireland Trialling Drone Deliveries Promising Food Within Three Minutes

Just Eat Ireland Trialling Drone Deliveries Promising Food Within Three Minutes

Unidentified Frying Objects incoming...

Tom Wood

Tom Wood

Just Eat is to trial using drones to deliver food to hungry customers in one specific part of Ireland.

Yes, we knew this day would come. Takeaway aficionados will be scouring the skies looking for unidentified frying objects hurtling towards them at great speeds.

It's the future we deserve, but is it the future we wanted?

Either way, Just Eat has teamed up with Manna Aero to deliver customers' dinner aerially using unmanned aircraft.

They also reckon that - if you're within a certain distance - they can have your grub with you "in three minutes".

Big talk. Let's see if they can back it up.

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So, the trial is taking place at University College Dublin, where hungry students will be able to call in an air strike from Just Eat, and Ben & Jerrys, as well as local Thai food brand Camile Thai.

The founder and CEO of Manna Aero, Bobby Healy, said: "It's clear that Drone delivery provides a faster, cleaner, safer, cheaper and higher quality alternative to road-based delivery. We are excited about how that will improve the world."

He explained: "You'll open the app and, in the case of Camile Thai, it will offer for the food to be picked up by drone. If you order by drone it will be delivered in less than three minutes,"

If you decide to order some airborne food, you can expect to find it winging its merry way to you attached to a state-of-the-art aerospace grade drone that is capable of speeds up to 80 kilometres per hour.

That means - according to Manna Aero - that for any deliveries that are with two kilometres of the restaurant will be completed within that three minutes that they were on about before.

Talk about fast food, eh?

Whilst you can only avail of this flying food service on Dublin's University College campus right now, it's going to be rolled out - or should that be flown out? - across South Dublin next month.

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The Managing Director of Just Eat Ireland, Amanda Roche-Kelly, said: "Technology is at the core of everything we do at Just Eat, so we're delighted to be involved in these pioneering trials with Manna, who have clearly built a ground-breaking drone delivery system.

"Transforming the business of food delivery as we know it, this coming together of two complementary services will greatly improve the delivery experience for our customers and further adds to the countless ways we connect people with food, everywhere.

"We are just so proud to be Ireland's first online food ordering and delivery platform to provide a commercial drone delivery offering to our customers."

Featured Image Credit: Just Eat

Topics: Technology, Weird