Google X, a division of Google that focuses on futuristic and risky projects, is attempting to break the transportation and delivery field with Project Wing, a fleet of drones that will enable to bring goods to people.

The tech giant has been working on the project for years and aims to focus on disaster relief, at least for now.

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Project Wing aims to use self-manufactured prototype drones to deliver emergency aid and commercial goods as well to people all over the world. This project has already been compared to Amazon's Prime Air which is also still under development.

According to a Google spokesperson, these self-flying vehicles can open up new opportunities when it comes to moving commodities around where it becomes faster, cheaper, more efficient, and less wasteful not to mention being environment-friendly.

The drones are now being tested in Queensland, Australia where regulations when it comes to flying drones are more flexible where they are now delivering packages to farmers.

Since 2011, Google has been contemplating creating drones where they hired MIT roboticist,Nick Roy in 2012. He is largely credited for assembling the drones together during his two year contract with Google.Roy is pivotal to the development of Project Wing where he designed the drones that incorporates both helicopter and fixed wing elements.

Amazon has also announced that they are experimenting and developing drones that is targeted to deliver packages to customers. Amazon may be focused more on its consumers but Google aims to focus more on disaster relief such as delivering heart defibrillators to heart attack victims.

According to Astro Teller, head of Google X, even a few of these drones can shuttle simultaneously during an emergency situation to a large number of people.

There are many tech companies who are developing drone technology but the US Federal Aviation Administration currently does not allow drone flights due to potential airspace dangers and privacy issues. 

Many believe that Project Wing may gain an advantage because Google has been influential when it comes to policy changes, even if it will take some years.

Google X has been busy with Google Glass and now, Project Loon which is a weather balloon that delivers wireless internet to anyone below it.

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