Drone Delivery Canada Corp., has successfully conducted Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) test flights in Canada. The success of these flights, which took place in Foremost, Alberta, demos... Read more
Reuters is reporting that Japan is hopeful of finalizing its plans for drone package deliver by June 9th of this year The goal is to have drones delivering packages in Japan by 2020 followed... Read more
On May 5, 2017, a Nevada UAS Consortium (Team Roadrunner) set the record for long-distance drone delivery flying a fixed-wing drone over 97 miles to Austin, Texas using cellular connectivity... Read more
IBM has announced its been granted a patent for transferring packages between drones during flight. The invention described in US Patent No. 9,561,852: In flight transfer of packages between... Read more
Whenever a news headline includes the words “drones” and “shipping,” most people assume it’s another article about Amazon or UPS. However, a California startup is setting its aerial sights o... Read more
UPS is not a company that plans to be left behind. With WalMart, Amazon, DHL and others all making forays into next gen package delivery systems using drones, UPS is looking to keep pace. U... Read more
Mega-retailer Amazon continues to spread it corporate wings into the drone space, filing a patent for a new type of hybrid folding-wing design. The patent was filed in 2014 and published on... Read more
Drone delivery has made significant progress in 2016. Delivery company Flirtey has worked with the FAA to test delivery in rural, urban, and ship-to-shore scenarios. Medical delivery compa... Read more
A top U.S. relief agency is enlisting drones in the War on Zika. This past week, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) released a list of finalists in the Combating... Read more
Increasingly universities are collaborating with private firms and other government agencies to examine how drones can be used in crisis situations to deliver aid and medical relief. Two suc... Read more
Amazon’s drone delivery service – PrimeAir – has given up on the U.S. for now. Days after rival Flirtey announced the first FAA sanctioned residential drone delivery... Read more
Airbus Group SE and Local Motors Inc. held a ceremony held at which they announced the winners of the “Airbus Cargo Drone Challenge ”, a co-creation competition for the next generation of co... Read more
While the anti-science, anti-vaxxer crowd continues to shoot up media attention with dose after dose of misguided information, low-income nations with actual medical problems face real-world... Read more
EHang, the Guangzhou, China based UAV manufacturer, has announced an agreement with Lung Biotechnology to provide them with a drone delivery service for manufactured organs for transplant. T... Read more