Now Delivering: Google Brings Us Burritos by Drone
- Alphabet unit conducts first tests with paying customers
- Under the radar, the future of commerce comes into view
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Rising from the treetops, the whirring drone comes into view with its cargo tucked under the wing.
It hovers about 25 feet above a bullseye on the grass. A white trapezoidal box descends, does a little pirouette, and then lands with a plop. Agents quickly converge on the payload: a braised pork burrito.