First drone to deliver coffee from Dutch soil
The headlines yesterday morning read, "IBM develops first coffee drone." Interesting news but not quite true. From a collaboration between six Dutch companies, the first coffee-bringing drone came to life in 2014.
This drone, the CoffeeCopter, was built to deliver cups of fresh, hand-brewed coffee to your workplace.
The prototype was a collaboration between us at Unc Inc, and Instability We Trust, Screenturner, The Coffee Virus, Puurontwerp, Skeyework and A-Lab. Together we developed a drone that, by using iBeacon & GPS, can find its way around a 3D environment such as our office building.
CoffeeCopter got a whole lot of media attention from newspapers like 'Het Parool', radio 3FM & SlamFM and more than 150 blogs, lifestyle and tech websites wrote about the drone. It even received full-page coverage in a Korean magazine.
We hope to receive a call from IBM soon :)
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It's a familiar feeling: mid-morning, exploiting the first caffeine high of the day, if only lattes could fly.