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A university in Singapore is using drones to make urgent deliveries on campus

Remember when, back in the day, carrier pigeons carried letters attached to their tiny legs? 

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Well, a university in Singapore is taking that concept into the future by having drones carry small parcels throughout its campus.

The National University of Singapore is launching a trial that will use drones to deliver documents to different parcel stations on campus.

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The project is part of a collaboration with helicopter manufacturer Airbus Helicopters. NUS will set up the different parcel stations and drones will carry "important and urgent documents," according to a press release.

Singapore might actually be the perfect place to try such a system. Considering the island is only 31-miles wide, it seems feasible to have flying robots deliver basic mail.

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The trial is still in the planning stage and details have yet to be released as to when it will begin. Tech Insider reached out to an NUS spokesperson who said it is still too early to say how exactly the trial will play out.

But the press release notes that if the trial goes successfully, NUS will consider initiating a second trial that uses drones to carry goods like urgent medicine from a parcel station to ships anchored along the Singapore coastline.

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