---
title: "Google’s Future Delivery Drone Might Just Talk to You"
description: "On April 25, Google was awarded a patent for a delivery drone that can talk It is capable of calling out to the receiver and telling people to step back as it drops a package."
date: "2016-05-01"
modified: "2016-11-29"
authors:
  - name: "Colin Aboy"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/colin"
url: "https://futurism.com/googles-future-delivery-drone-might-just-talk"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "Drones"
  - "Google"
  - "Robotics"
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "delivery"
  - "drone"
  - "Google"
  - "patent"
  - "talking drone"
---

# Google’s Future Delivery Drone Might Just Talk to You

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Google-has-plans-for-a-delivery-drone-that-talks-to-you-A.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Claude Paris\</em\>*

Currently, companies left and right are developing a number of [applications for drones](<https://futurism.com/university-florida-holds-first-drone-race-using-mind-control>) in our daily lives. Perhaps most notable are the [ones that can deliver](<http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8037720011>) goods right to our doorsteps.

It might seem rather commonplace that these drones may one day bring your dinner, groceries, or mail packages to you, but how it will *give* it to you is another matter. To that end, Google has something rather interesting in the works.

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/c_cvLAfFuPEDDJPjK_OcCv9s_xiXwMof8yFzctx9nMk.jpg>)
*The delivery drone telling signaling a person to step back. Credit: US Patent and Trademark Office*

On April 25, Google was awarded a [patent](<http://www.uspto.gov/>) for a delivery drone that's automated, and can drop off packages without the need to land by using a tether cable. However, that is just the beginning. The highlight of this drone (if it goes into production) is that it can talk to people, tell them to take a step back away from a package being tethered down, and notify when a delivery is complete.

It also makes use of warning lights that change color (red, yellow, or green) apart from the talking capability.

Who knows, perhaps Google's vision of [humans and robots](<https://futurism.com/googles-robo-dog-spot-starts-training-us-marines>) interacting isn't too far away.