Drone Demand Growing For Deliveries
From Bloomberg: Electric aircraft such as drones could account for 30% of same-day package deliveries by 2040 as network scale dramatically brings down costs, according to [...]
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Just What Your Operation Needs: A Manned Drone
Imagine moving mail and packages around your campus using a manned drone — a technology that has come of age. The ‘Big Drone’ is able to hold one passenger [...]
UPS Wins FAA’s First Full Approval For Drone Airline
ATLANTA – October 5, 2019 — UPS subsidiary UPS Flight Forward Inc. today announced it has received the U.S. government’s first full Part 135 Standard [...]
UPS Seeks FAA Drone Approval
UPS has applied for FAA approval of commercial drone flights that will allow unlimited drone flights beyond the operator’s view. The application is being made by the [...]
UPS In First FAA Sanctioned Drone Delivery
Partners With Matternet To Transport Medical Samples Via Drone Across Hospital System In Raleigh, N.C. UPS announced March 26, 2019 a groundbreaking new logistics service to [...]
Russian Mail Delivery Drone Crashes On Inaugural Flight (Video)
The inaugural flight of the Russian Postal Service’s delivery drone crashed into a wall, with damages set at $21,000 … (click to read [...]
Mercedes Drone System Scores 100% Delivery Rate
Mercedes-Benz reports its drones delivered coffee and cellphones to to vans placed in Zurich as part of a test of “airmail” through the online site Siroop. The [...]
Drones Deliver Defibrillators
Drone delivery service Flirtey announced on Tuesday that it is partnering with a Reno-based ambulance service to send out emergency equipment by air for cardiac [...]
Wal-Mart Blimp Floating Warehouse
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has filed a patent for a blimp-like floating warehouse that would make drone deliveries to homes from the blimp … (click to read [...]
China’s JD.com Builds 150 Drone Operation Sites
From China Daily: Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com said Thursday it will build 150 operation sites for unmanned aerial vehicle delivery in southwestern province of Sichuan. [...]
Airbus and SingPost Sign Drone Delivery Deal
Airbus Helicopters has signed an agreement with Singapore Post (SingPost) under which SingPost will become its logistics partner for its Skyways parcel delivery project, [...]
Amazon’s Prime Air Drone Makes First Delivery (Video)
An Amaxon Prime Air drone delivered sunscreen for attendees at an Amazon technology conference in California (video) … (click to read [...]
Airborne Fulfillment Center By Amazon Revealed
Amazon has filed patents for an airborne fulfillment center that will send drones to deliver products ordered … (click to read [...]
Top-Secret Amazon Drone Lab Revealed
Amazon’s Prime Air Service is being 3-D printed at a secret lab in Cambridge, England … (click to read [...]
UPS Begins Drone Delivery Test Flights
Reuters reports: “United Parcel Service Inc’s launch this week of drone test flights simulating emergency medical-supply deliveries highlights a race for data to [...]