UPS will use drones to fly prescription medications to residents of The Villages in Florida, a retirement community of more than 1350,000 people. The service is scheduled to take off on May 4, and will use drones developed by Matternet, a California-based aerial delivery company. The first flights will be less than half a mile long, and end when the drones drop off the parcels at a location near The Villages. A UPS ground vehicle will then complete the delivery to the resident’s door. [Read: ‘Pandemic drones’ are flying over the US to detect coronavirus symptoms] The program is a partnership between…

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