Google's Project Wing Is Developing Delivery Drones

Cooking up devices in its secretive laboratories

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a Google drone? The Silicon Valley-based research laboratory, Google X, announced on Thursday that it is looking into developing the pilot-less flying devices. The Project Wing drones will theoretically be able to deliver packages within minutes of getting a destination.

"We have been exploring this area for the last couple of years, and we've now hired a new team lead to take us from research to product," a Google rep said in an email.

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