A man in Cyprus had to walk his dog during the country's COVID-19 shutdown and decided to see if a drone could handle the job. Vakis Demetriou shared his experiment on his Instagram, showing his dog Oliver walking up a residential street with a small drone following close behind holding the leash. In 2017, Drones Direct tried to market a product called the Dog Drone, which would use GPS data to lead dogs through a pre-set walking paths. Because of drone use laws, it would be illegal for the person piloting the drone to lose sight of it, making it necessary for the dog owner to follow along on every walk the drone and dog went out on. The drone also had no mechanism for picking up dog feces which would inevitably become an issue over repeated use.

Source: Daily Mail March 23, 2020 17:28 UTC