This Device will Deliver Packages to your University

Kiki Air, a student-based start-up, is a drone-based delivery system that drops off packages across Yale University. It delivers four categories of goods at specific locations around the campus, including residential colleges, commonly-frequented walkways and in old campus. The start-up offers $5 worth free snack when ordered through app. Currently Kiki Air is using iOS app. The app is being tested on a small sample of students, and the developers plan on creating an Android app. The app developers plan on eventually functioning beyond Yale’s campus.

Kiki Air functions with the view of reducing carbon footprint, creating jobs and providing a more environmentally friendly, convenient alternative. Once the order is placed, the sundries are loaded and attached to drones. After confirming that the location is safe for delivery, the drone drops off the order in a padded envelope. CEO Jason Lu’20 conceived of the original idea and recruited, co-founder Orman to work on publicity and marketing. Kiki Air has seen success, winning Y Combinator and received a grant for $1,50,000 and fund from various angel investors.As perfect as it may seem, Kiki Air couldn’t doge controversy. A video showed a Kiki Air drone falling from the sky on library Walk, the incident was confirmed by the Yale students. Though Oman insisted that it was a controlled launching. Lu assured that the founders take safety extremely seriously, and spend many hours training the drone pilots. Since the incident the drop off locations have been changed and has given its pilot more training. Still seven Yale students interviewed by the News gave a positive experience with Kiki Air’s service. Kiki Air is planning to launch fully in the coming semester.

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