'Dronecleaners' Deliver Pants By Quadcopter

Pants, dropped! What's the best way to convince millenials to get their suits drycleaned? No one knows, but Philadelphia's Manayunk Cleaners is trying drones. The drone is a modified DJI Phantom quadcopter, which is a commercially available drone capable of carrying about 1 or 2 pounds. Clothes on hangers are attached to a hanging clip on the drone's legs, while the drone buzzes along through the air. It's hardly an autonomous system, though. The drone needs two operators: one person to fly the ...