Google[x], the secretive special projects lab of Google, has revealed the prototype of its drone-based delivery program called
Project Wing on Thursday. Google has been working on this project for two years, but was a secret until now. The video released by Google shows the testing of drones in Queensland, Australia delivering goods to farmers.
With Project Wing, Google join its rivals Amazon's
Prime Air and Facebook's
Connectivity Lab in the delivery-drone market. However, the original motive behind Project Wing was to deliver
defibrillators to heart patients within a couple of minutes. Google said that its long term goal was to develop drones that could be used in disaster situations like earthquakes, tsunamis and provide items like first-aid kits, medicines, batteries to people in isolated areas.