可食用無人機即將問世 用完直接吃掉就行了

Edible drones filled with food, water or medicine could soon become indispensable in humanitarian emergencies by delivering life-saving supplies to remote areas hit by natural disasters or conflict, their designers said.

可食用無人機的設計者近日表示，滿載食物、水或藥物的可食用無人機可以向遭受自然災害或爆發衝突的偏遠地區運送救生物資，可能很快就會成爲人道主義緊急情況中不可或缺的力量。

With 50 kg of food stocked inside its compartments, each drone would be able to deliver enough supplies to feed up to 50 people per day.

每架無人機的機艙內可裝下50公斤的食物，運載的物資最多能滿足50人一天的消耗。

The frame of the prototype version of the drone - called Pouncer - is made of wood but the designers are planning to use edible materials in the next version.

這款無人機名叫Pouncer，原型機的機架是木製的，但設計者打算用可食用材料製作下一個版本的機架。

"Food can be component to build things," Nigel Gifford, the founder of UK-based Windhorse Aerospace, the company behind the design, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Pouncer的設計出自英國的Windhorse Aerospace公司，該公司的創始人奈傑爾·吉福德表示：“食物可以成爲構建一些東西的組成部分。”

"You fly the drone and then eat it," he said in a phone interview.

他在一次電話採訪中說道；“你可以放飛無人機，之後吃掉它。”

Pouncer would undergo initial testing in May and should be ready to be deployed on its first mission by the end of the year.

Pouncer將於5月進行初始測試，年底前有望執行首次任務。