Google parent Alphabet Inc. plans this month to use drones to deliver burritos to a small number of staff and students at Virginia Tech, a limited test of the tech giant’s ambitious plans to quicken deliveries with unmanned aircraft. In the tests, drones from Alphabet’s research lab, X, will ferry burritos from a Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. food truck to an official several hundred feet away, who will distribute the orders to waiting customers, Alphabet said. The flights will mark X’s first drone deliveries in the U.S. to...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 08, 2016 20:48 UTC