---
title: "Watch This Madlad Pick Up a Starbucks Coffee Using a Drone"
description: "In an entertaining video, a caffeine enthusiast picks up a Starbucks coffee with his drone — to the bemusement of a barista."
date: "2020-04-13"
modified: "2020-04-13"
authors:
  - name: "Jon Christian"
    job_title: "Executive Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/watch-madlad-starbucks-drone"
categories:
  - "Drones"
  - "Robotics"
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "coronavirus"
  - "covid19"
  - "drones"
  - "the digest"
---

# Watch This Madlad Pick Up a Starbucks Coffee Using a Drone

![In an entertaining video, a caffeine enthusiast picks up a Starbucks coffee with his drone — to the bemusement of a barista.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/watch-madlad-starbucks-drone.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Dmitri Martin via YouTube\</em\>*

## Cuppa Joe

The global pandemic is bringing out weird behavior among coffee drinkers. Remember Jerry Saltz, a sexagenarian caffeine lover who went [massively viral](<https://danozzi.substack.com/p/the-worlds-most-insane-coffee-drinker>) for hoarding takeaway coffees from a gas station and reheating them, one by one?

Well, a new vid puts Saltz to shame — showing a coffee lover picking up his Starbucks order using a drone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw2WcrHFkm8

## Drone Goes Whrrr

YouTuber Dmitri Marian says he pulled the pickup off with a midrange DJI Mavic 2.

He fixed a basket to the drone using a string, then flew it over to his neighborhood Starbucks. He called in his order and asked if they could put his coffee in the basket — and, as you can see in footage shot from the drone, a bemused barista obliged.

## Chains We Forge

In a separate video uploaded about two weeks ago, Marian pulled off a similar stunt with McDonald's coffee — and, in the description, chided viewers against bad drone behavior.

"Please don't fly drones with bad intention like drone spying or drone racing near people," he wrote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPvBypasj70

**More on drones:** *[See a Drone Kill Another Drone by Slamming Into It at 100 MPH](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/anduril-anti-drone-slam-100-mph>)*

## Author
I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production.

### Author social links  
[Bluesky](<https://bsky.app/profile/jonchristian.net>)