To fully benefit as a society from what drones can bring us, aviation regulators, such as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) need to get their acts together and create a single-point-of-truth to…
In the United Kingdom, the Royal Mail postal service delivered the first package by drone to the Scottish isle of Mull.
Swoop Aero está lista para lanzar la "fase dos" de su programa de drones médicos en el Congo. La startup australiana utilizará sus drones para unirse al gobierno en su lucha contra el COVID-19, el ébola y otras enfermedades graves.
Dr. Jessica Zègre-Hemsey and her team published the results of their drone study in The New England Journal of Medicine (September 17, 2020). The study was supported by a grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NC TraCS),…
Details published by the European Patent Office show that Amazon has filed for a patent to teach autonomous drones about flight speed, lift-off, rolls, and landings with the use of flight simulators.
Walmart said today that it would start delivering COVID-19 test kits by drone through an automated drone delivery system to customers’ doorsteps in a pilot project.
Drone maker Volansi secures $50M to expand its drone delivery service of urgent medical supplies and future COVID-19 vaccines. The ‘series B’ funding round of $50M brings the total funding to $75M to support its vertical take-off and landing (VTOL)…
After Amazon and Walmart the UK’s supermarket giant cannot be left behind. Tesco announces that the company has partnered with drone startup Manna Aero to start testing a home drone delivery service in Co Galway, Ireland.
El sistema de drones M2 de Matternet hace posible una nueva red de reparto a hospitales de Estados Unidos. El nuevo servicio, en colaboración con UPS Flight Forward (UPSFF), transportará medicamentos sensibles al tiempo y la temperatura y EPI específicos para cada paciente, destinados a los profesionales médicos que tratan el COVID-19.
Drone delivery company Wing has a new head of operations as the Alphabet subsidiary is looking to expand its global reach.
With a $1 million state grant, the Elizabeth City State University plans to use drones to deliver Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) test kits to help fight COVID-19 in rural areas of Northeastern North Carolina.
Yuma sector border patrol agents arrested a minor on Wednesday for retrieving multiple packages of methamphetamine that were dropped by a drone. The unmanned aerial vehicle (AUV) crossed the border with Mexico near San Luis, and agents spotted the young…
Ohio State Highway Patrol Troopers said that a Cleveland man was caught red-handed while smuggling contraband by drone into Mansfield prison in Ohio.
According to a new Gartner report, cities should prepare for drone deliveries. it says that by 2026 more than one million drones could be making retail deliveries.
This is a big deal! The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved Zipline’s drone delivery system in North Carolina. It appears that the coronavirus pandemic has pushed the government agency to fast-track beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) medical drone deliveries in the U.S.
Durante el Coronavirus, el servicio de reparto con drones de Wing ha realizado miles de entregas en Australia y en todo el mundo. Wing Aviation es una filial de la empresa matriz de Google, Alphabet, y lleva probando con su servicio de reparto con drones en Australia desde hace...
In the UK, tests are underway with a very large drone, the size of a car, to deliver medical supplies to hospitals to help ease pressure on the country’s health system during the new Coronavirus crisis.
Manna Aero that has already started trials to deliver medication by drone is in talks to bring door-to-door prescriptions delivered by drone to the UK soon.
Drones from Zipline are used in Ghana to enable faster coronavirus testing. The company said on Monday the drones are now being used to test before outside of major cities.
Today in the New Haven Register a reporter writes about ordering a sandwich by drone in New Haven, Connecticut. The drone delivery service, Kiki Air, was started by a Yale student. Here are some of the highlights of that story.
The international medical team that accomplished the world’s first documented drone delivery of insulin for a patient living in a remote community described the project in an ENDO 2020 abstract that will be published in the Journal of the Endocrine…
Here’s another great article about ZIpline and the fact that this drone company is ready to deploy medical drone deliveries to fight COVID-19 across the United States. It makes you wonder if the FAA will be able to keep up…
Earlier today, we posted this story about Zipline planning to make deliveries by drone in the United States to help fight the Coronavirus crisis. Now, we learn that an Irish startup called Manna Aero is planning to provide similar services…
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