Contribution of Ecovative Design in first biological drone

It was possibly for the first time when a New York-based company, Ecovative Design known for innovative biodegradable products had helped in the production of biological drone. http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2014/11/17/ecovative-design-helps-build-biodegradable-drone.html informs that a group of some brilliant students along with the collaboration of Ecovative and Lynn Rothschild, leading NASA scientist successfully modeled, prototyped and tested biological mycelium-based chassis for drone at Ames Research Center of NASA in California.

The company has earned a unique reputation in growing a wide range of biodegradable alternatives to plastic and foam products from agricultural waste products such as leaves and corn stalks. In order to hold the materials, specific glue from fungal material mycelium is used by Ecovative.

Bright and energetic students from Spelman College, Stanford and Brown University made use of this very chassis to be coated with bacteria-grown cellulose. However, http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2014/11/17/ecovative-design-helps-build-biodegradable-drone.html further states that the drone was not completely biological as it included conventional battery, propeller and controls for successful flight test done in Boston.

Further studies are on to make completely biological drone for the military operations that will not leave a single train or evidence like biological footprint for spying purposes although some private companies like Google and Amazon are interested to use such drains for commercial delivery purposes.