A freshly laundered shirt, covered in plastic, flaps in the wind as it takes flight from in front of Manayunk Cleaners in Philadelphia. It wasn’t picked up by a breeze, though, rather a remote-controlled drone, which ferries the shirt across the sky on a delivery run to a nearby customer.
It may not be the most effective way to deliver clothes, but it surely does attract attention. And that is the goal of Harout Vartanian, owner of Manayunk Cleaners.
I’m all about technology and I see a lot of these cleaners, it’s so old school. You come in…and you just pick it up. I needed to spice things up
Manayunk Cleaners owner Harout Vartanian
The 24-year-old, who’s trying to attract a young clientele at his Main Street shop that opened last September, converted a four-bladed DJI Phantom quadracopter, designed for taking aerial photography, into a dry cleaning delivery drone.
While the drone deliveries are not exactly practical, they do get attention, people often stop to look at the device flying high over Main Street, sometimes nearly a dozen at a time and I think this is what UAV industry needs, to remove the bad reputation from military sector and get into peoples‘ awereness otherwise than as a killing machine.
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