This is pretty sloppy reporting. The single-wing tail-sitter drone design depicted in both the picture and video accompanying this article and discussed in the

This is pretty sloppy reporting. The single-wing tail-sitter drone design depicted in both the picture and video accompanying this article and discussed in the text had been abandoned as of last year: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/03/17/google-working-on-new-drone-after-wing-design-failed/ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/03/17/google-working-on-new... They do still have a program for drone delivery, but we know nothing about the drones involved except that these aren't them.