If you are sleepy, the drone will automatically pour coffee.

Your next barista may be a drone.

It is reported that IBM has applied for a patent for an unmanned aerial vehicle that can automatically fly over a cup of coffee before the needs of corporate employees or cafe customers.

The drone will use sensors to detect if someone wants to drink coffee, based on a specific gesture or "predicted cognitive state." Subsequently, the unmanned person flies over the demander and delivers the coffee through a beverage holder (such as a plastic bag) attached to the device. In one example, the drone can pour coffee directly into someone's mug.

The patent also describes how drones can assess whether they need a cup of coffee based on a person's "cognitive state." The document states: "Evaluation and prediction are based on any of the following characteristics: sleep quality, electronic calendar, biometrics, blood pressure, pupil dilation, facial expression analysis, wake-up time, and gesture analysis."

These features can be detected by some wearable devices or personal electronic calendars. The drone will also connect to the server at the same time to know the next destination.

In addition, the system can even predict when and where users will need a cup of coffee based on their coffee consumption habits. The patent explains: “Coffee consumption tends to be habitual or ritual, and many people start a new day with a cup of coffee, and then drink it during morning breaks or after-meal activities.”

"Over time, the system will learn how and when someone tends to consume coffee, and after recording it, [adjust the personalization settings for someone or place based on the level of confidence."

Of course, this drone can also meet the user's preferences, or in other words, it can also provide milk coffee or filter coffee.

Interestingly, this patent also describes other uses for biometric sensors. If a person gets drunk and is identified by unusual movements or ambiguous language, the drone will cancel the order for another cup.

It is worth mentioning that IBM has also been exploring other drone technologies, such as the series of drones that can transmit packages in the air.

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Dubai Air Taxi, Super large UAV with 18 propellers

Dubai conducted the first test of the “UAV Taxi” concept service. It hopes to use a huge drone as an air taxi to provide air taxi services for the already crowded Dubai traffic to ease ground traffic pressure.

This is a drone that looks like a drone in China. It is only a hundred times the size of a large UAV. The huge white body is a passenger compartment. It can carry 2 people. It should be noted that this is 2 Passengers, not pilots.

Above the passenger compartment is a beam structure similar to the DJI UAV, with a total of 18 rotors. The aircraft made a five-minute flight on a bay beach. The United Arab Emirates Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Muhammad watched the test flight of this "unmanned aerial taxi"!

Dubai is the capital of the UAE and a very modern city. Dubai's urban construction is moving towards a smart city, so drones and robots are at the heart of its plans. Dubai has positioned itself as the smartest city in the world, and ambitiously hope that by 2030, autonomous vehicles will account for a quarter of the world's total travel. They are not satisfied with self-driving cars, and now they are starting up with autonomous vehicles!

In fact, this drone was not designed by the UAE itself, but by Volocopter of Germany. The company expressed the hope that the unmanned taxi in the air would be put into operation within five years.

The company's CEO, Florian Reuter, said: "In terms of implementation, you can use your own smartphone, have an app, and book an air taxi to pick you up, then carry You go to the next destination."

Although this large aircraft has a crew cabin, it does not have a driving device. All the flights are operated intelligently. The mobile APP will plan the flight route for them, and then the taxi will take you to the target location!

Noel Sharkey, a computer scientist and robotics expert at Sheffield University in the United Kingdom, said that the biggest challenge would be to other air taxis, buildings, and birds. Class and drone dynamic obstacle avoidance."

“Will the sky in Dubai become crowded?” The ground of the city may become a dark place full of conspiracy and mystery like “Blade Runner” and “Fifth Element”.

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