David Vos, project lead for Googles Project Wing, commented: Our goal is to have commercial business up and running in 2017, dailymail.co.uk reports. Googles prototype Project Wings aircraft has a wingspan of approximately 1.5m (4.9ft) and has four electrically-driven propellers.
They will fly a programmed route and follow rules to respond if they run into unexpected situations like a gust of wind, Google says, the source cites. The project was originally envisaged by Google boss Sergey Brin as a way to deliver defibrillators to heart attack victims, but has since been expanded.
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