{"id":104709,"date":"2020-04-03T13:06:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/coronavirus-delivers-worlds-first-drone-delivery-service"},"modified":"2020-04-03T13:06:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:06:41","slug":"coronavirus-delivers-worlds-first-drone-delivery-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/coronavirus-delivers-worlds-first-drone-delivery-service","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Delivers \u2018World\u2019s First\u2019 Drone Delivery Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coronavirus-delivers-worlds-first-drone-delivery-service3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus is sending in the drones. In what\u2019s being billed as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/drone-flies-to-the-rescue-in-first-coronavirus-food-and-drugs-delivery-3zpqbw5qx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/drone-flies-to-the-rescue-in-first-coronavirus-food-and-drugs-delivery-3zpqbw5qx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"world first\">world first<\/a>,\u201d startup Manna Aero has begun a drone delivery service in Moneygall, Ireland. Delivering medicine to vulnerable people locked in their homes, it provides yet another strong example of how technology is helping the world adjust to life in the shadow of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Having received authorisation from the Irish Aviation Authority, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/business\/technology\/lockdown-survival-medicine-delivery-trial-by-drone-greenlighted-for-offaly-town-39098376.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/business\/technology\/lockdown-survival-medicine-delivery-trial-by-drone-greenlighted-for-offaly-town-39098376.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Manna Aero\u2019s service began last Friday\">Manna Aero\u2019s service began last Friday<\/a> as a pilot in Moneygall, which was previously best known as Barack Obama\u2019s ancestral village. However, if the trial is successful, the service will be rolled out throughout Ireland, and could also be used to deliver food.<\/p>\n<p>The drones will deliver prescription orders for medicine to around a dozen households. As Manna Zero\u2019s founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/business\/technology\/lockdown-survival-medicine-delivery-trial-by-drone-greenlighted-for-offaly-town-39098376.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/business\/technology\/lockdown-survival-medicine-delivery-trial-by-drone-greenlighted-for-offaly-town-39098376.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Bobby Healy told the Irish Independent\">Bobby Healy told the <em data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/business\/technology\/lockdown-survival-medicine-delivery-trial-by-drone-greenlighted-for-offaly-town-39098376.html\">Irish Independent<\/em><\/a>, the drones ensure \u201czero human-contact\u201d and can execute deliveries \u201cin ways normal delivery can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus is sending in the drones. In what\u2019s being billed as a \u201cworld first,\u201d startup Manna Aero has begun a drone delivery service in Moneygall, Ireland. Delivering medicine to vulnerable people locked in their homes, it provides yet another strong example of how technology is helping the world adjust to life in the shadow of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1488,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-drones","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}