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Cleveland Clinic and Zipline completed their first prescription drone deliveries in Beachwood, Ohio, as Zipline says U.S. flights now top 70% of its daily volume.
Ukrainian Defense Drones (UDD), the U.S. company representing Ukraine’s F-Drones, has chosen the Village of Holland in Northwest Ohio for its first American assembly and manufacturing center. The company plans to invest $18.4 million and create at least 300 jobs in Lucas County by the end of 2029, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Congresswoman Marcy…
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…
Anduril Industries is in talks to buy Nissan’s Oppama assembly plant in Yokosuka, Japan, and convert the 64-year-old car factory into a production site for military drones. Reuters broke the story on June 25, 2026, citing three people familiar with the negotiations. No deal has been signed, and Nissan says it is weighing other buyers,…
Walmart and its drone partner Wing named seven new metro areas for their delivery network on June 10, and one of those cities should sound familiar to anyone who read DroneXL earlier today. Memphis is on the list. So is Phoenix. The Alphabet-owned operator will push the partnership toward nearly 20 US markets, and the…
DOJ charges five men over a drone-and-sniper plot at the White House UFC Freedom 250 event. Court filings show real guns but barely-built drones.
Westmag emerged from stealth on Tuesday with $11 million in seed funding to manufacture drone motors and robot actuators in South San Francisco, aiming squarely at the one part of the American drone supply chain almost no one has tried to fix. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Founders Fund, Lux Capital, NFDG,…
YouTube creator Cam Mackey argues the DJI Pocket 4 is blocked from US sale because of political money and Trump family drone investments, not security.
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