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UK Royal Mail has set out its ambition to scale up its use of drone technology and create more than 50 new postal drone routes over the next three years, subject to Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) approval, as part of a new partnership with Windracers, the logistics drone company. Continue reading
Aerial delivery drones were conspicuously missing during Shanghai’s month-long Covid-19 lockdown, even though 25 million residents in one of China’s biggest population centres struggled for daily deliveries of fresh food and essential medical supplies.
Swiggy, an online food-delivery company, has announced that it would soon test the use of drones for its ‘Instamart’ quick grocery delivery service. Continue reading
Swoop Aero and VillageReach have entered a patronage partnership with the UPS Foundation under the umbrella of a Focusing Philanthropy fundraising campaign that aims to progressively scale up drone operations across Malawi. Continue reading
It’s a sunny spring morning in Dallas, Texas. Representatives from Walgreens and Alphabet’s Wing are in Simpson Plaza, preparing to launch drone delivery in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Continue reading
Zipline, an American company that specializes in using autonomously flying drones to deliver medical supplies, has taken off in Japan. Continue reading
Jeff Bezos went on 60 Minutes in 2013 and pledged to fill the skies with a fleet of delivery drones that could zip parcels to customers’ homes in 30 minutes. Asked when this future would arrive, the Amazon.com Inc. founder said he expected drone deliveries to commence in the next five years or thereabouts. Continue reading
Wing is finally launched the first ever commercial drone delivery service in a major U.S. metropolitan area on Thursday, April 7. Continue reading