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Focus on Business

Focus On Business: Chris Stiles on Drone Delivery

WEKU | By Bryan Bartlett

Published October 10, 2016 at 9:00 AM EDT

UPS is testing drone delivery of urgent packages to remote areas, while Chipotle experiments with drone delivery of burritos on a college campus. How do these remote-controlled flying robots figure into your future? Tom Martin talked with Chris Stiles, president of Unmanned Services, a Lexington-based company providing drone services to all kinds of commercial and civil industries.

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Part two of Tom Martin's conversation with Chris Stiles.

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