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Walmart Brings Wing Drones to Cincinnati and Kroger's Door
Walmart

Walmart Brings Wing Drones to Cincinnati and Kroger’s Door

Walmart is bringing drone delivery to Cincinnati through its partnership with Alphabet-owned Wing, planting an autonomous grocery flight operation in the same metro that houses Kroger’s global headquarters. The Ohio launch is part of the 150-store Wing-Walmart rollout announced in January 2026. That January announcement named Cincinnati alongside Houston, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Miami and…

Dominion Energy Runs 50 Drones on America's Grid
United States

Dominion Energy Runs 50 Drones on America’s Grid

When Dominion Energy’s grid operators noticed an unexpected power drop at the Colonial Trail West solar farm in Surry County, Virginia this June, they didn’t send a lineman. They sent a drone. Pilot Aaron Colgrove pulled up the mission from Dominion’s D-ROC, the company’s drone remote operations center, told the unit to head to the…

Overhead black-and-white view of a DJI Phantom quadcopter surrounded by folding DJI Mavic drones and other multirotors arranged on a white surface
Department of Defense

ABSI Hosts Hive Mind Robotics Team for Counter-UAS Tour

Members of growingSTEMS Robotics Team 836A, known as The Hive Mind, toured ABSI Aerospace and Defense in California, Maryland this month to see how the company builds the expendable unmanned targets the U.S. military uses to train against hostile drones. The Hollywood, Maryland team had just returned from the VEX IQ World Championship in St.…

Greece Scales Its Wildfire Drone Grid To 100+ Bases For 2026, A Year After Doubling Its Fleet
Forest Service

Greece Scales Its Wildfire Drone Grid To 100+ Bases For 2026, A Year After Doubling Its Fleet

Greece will run more than 100 drone surveillance bases and three mobile command centers carrying thermal cameras across the country during the 2026 wildfire season, its largest drone deployment yet for fire detection. Government officials laid out the plan as part of a wider civil-protection strategy presented at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos…

St Paul Police Logged 472 DFR Flights in Four Weeks
Skydio

St Paul Police Logged 472 DFR Flights in Four Weeks

The St Paul Police Department’s new dock-based Drone as First Responder program flew 472 missions in its first four weeks, already passing the 436 patrol-drone flights the department logged in all of 2025. The three rooftop Skydio X10 drones went live on May 30 and now reach calls in under 90 seconds, a number St…

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