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Zipline Adds Austin To Texas Drone Delivery Push

Zipline Adds Austin to Texas Drone Delivery Push

Zipline plans to expand its autonomous drone delivery service to Austin later this year, making it the California company’s third Texas market in under 12 months. Dallas-Fort Worth launched in August 2025. Houston followed in April 2026. Austin is next,…

Thiel And Sequoia Bet $570M On German Drones

Thiel and Sequoia Bet $570M on German Drones

Stark Defence, the Berlin startup that builds loitering munitions for the German military, closed a €500 million (roughly $570 million) funding round this week led by Sequoia Capital and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. The deal values the two-year-old company at…

China Unveils 55-Pound Laser That Burns Drones In 4 Seconds

China Unveils 55-Pound Laser That Burns Drones in 4 Seconds

China just put a counter-drone laser on a soldier’s back. At the Defence Information Equipment & Technology Exhibition that opened June 16 in Beijing, the state-linked contractor Harbin Xinguang Optic-Electronics Technology rolled out two man-portable laser weapons, the Lijian II…

Urban Ray Pushes Medical Drone Logistics Forward

Urban Ray Pushes Medical Drone Logistics Forward

The headline is simple: samples flew from St. Josef Hospital to the Medical Care Center for Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology Ruhr in Essen through a fully automated hub-to-hub process. The useful part is what that implies, because the real bottleneck…