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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.
可食用无人机的设计者近日表示，满载食物、水或药物的可食用无人机可以向遭受自然灾害或爆发冲突的偏远地区运送救生物资，可能很快就会成为人道主义紧急情况中不可或缺的力量。
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.
每架无人机的机舱内可装下50公斤的食物，运载的物资最多能满足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.
这款无人机名叫Pouncer，原型机的机架是木制的，但设计者打算用可食用材料制作下一个版本的机架。
"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的设计出自英国的Windhorse Aerospace公司，该公司的创始人奈杰尔·吉福德表示：“食物可以成为构建一些东西的组成部分。”
"You fly the drone and then eat it," he said in a phone interview.
他在一次电话采访中说道；“你可以放飞无人机，之后吃掉它。”
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将于5月进行初始测试，年底前有望执行首次任务。
