{"id":85469,"date":"2018-12-04T09:02:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T17:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/alphabets-wing-delivery-drone-service-to-launch-in-finland-next-year"},"modified":"2018-12-04T09:02:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T17:02:43","slug":"alphabets-wing-delivery-drone-service-to-launch-in-finland-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/alphabets-wing-delivery-drone-service-to-launch-in-finland-next-year","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet\u2019s Wing delivery drone service to launch in Finland next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alphabets-wing-delivery-drone-service-to-launch-in-finland-next-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five years ago, Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezos predicted that by now we would all be getting <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/amazon-prime-air-delivery-drone\/29982\/\" target=\"_blank\">packages delivered by drones<\/a>. Despite numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/mercedes-delivery-van-drone-switzerland\/51569\/\" target=\"_blank\">trials<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/dhl-parcelcopter-africa\/56663\/\" target=\"_blank\">pilots<\/a> around the globe, we\u2019re still waiting. Meanwhile other companies have been nipping at Amazon\u2019s heels, including Google\u2019s parent company Alphabet. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/google-delivery-drone-project-x-burritos\/51776\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project X drones<\/a> started delivering burritos to customers in Australia\u2019s Capital Territory last year, and has now announced that folks in Finland can look forward to package deliveries by air from early 2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/alphabet-wing-drone-delivery-finland\/57511\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/alphabet-wing-drone-delivery-finland\/57511\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezos predicted that by now we would all be getting packages delivered by drones. Despite numerous trials and pilots around the globe, we\u2019re still waiting. Meanwhile other companies have been nipping at Amazon\u2019s heels, including Google\u2019s parent company Alphabet. Its Project X drones started delivering burritos to customers in Australia\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85469","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=85469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}