Drone food delivery is spreading across Australia. Research suggests we will eat more junk food as a result

By Rebecca Bennett, PhD Student, Associate Research Fellow, Deakin University
Kathryn Backholer, Co-Director, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University

Last week, a drone delivery company called Wing (owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet) started operating in Melbourne. Some 250,000 residents in parts of the city’s eastern suburbs can now order food from cafes and restaurants via the DoorDash app and have it brought to them in minutes by a small aircraft.

This is the first large-scale rollout of autonomous food delivery in Australia. What does it mean for our food…

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