Walmart drone delivery has moved forward, as Walmart announces a significant strategic investment in drone service provider DroneUp. The decision indicates a major move in the race between retailers to dominate last mile delivery. “Conducting …
The UK Catapult Project shows a path for wide-scale drone adoption, as participant Wing explains: demonstrating safe, scalable, and secure management of drone traffic – using Network ID. Wing’s blog post announces the publication of …
Volatus Aerospace has been granted a Special Flight Operating Certificate (SFOC) to perform BVLOS flight in Canada. Transport Canada has approved Volatus BVLOS ops in six locations across Canada, giving the company the opportunity to …
In this week’s column – flying under a public safety COA, the real boundaries of VLOS flight, and the issues of airworthiness and drones. The following is one of a biweekly serieson public safety drone …
EHang sets up aerial emergency channels, dispatching advanced aerial vehicles (AAVs) and passenger drones for coronavirus response in Guangdong, China. “Since the beginning of the recent coronavirus resurgence in China’s Guangdong Province, EHang Holdings Limited …
Attention, drone operators: the NASA UAS Safety Reporting System is open: and you can volunteer information guaranteed to be kept confidential, and not to get you into trouble with the FAA. It’s Voluntary – But …
Game changing technology for a critical mission in healthcare: drones for organ transplants are proving their worth. “MissionGO, a leader in unmanned aircraft solutions that is transforming logistics; LifeSource, the organ procurement organization (OPO) serving the …
Last week’s virtual FAA UAS Symposium, a joint event sponsored by AUVSI and the FAA, featured a wide range of speakers from the regulatory and drone communities. In “Perspectives from Capitol Hill”, Rep. Rick Larson, …
At last week’s UAS Symposium, FAA Administrator Steve Dickson delivered a keynote address outlining the progress that the FAA has made in delivering drone rules: Ops Over People, Ops Over Moving Vehicles, Remote ID. Dickson …
Visions of autonomous, passenger drones flitting across futuristic cityscapes are still riding a fine line between reality and sci-fi. However, with companies such as EHang and Sikorsky leading the charge, that future may be closer …
The new Measure and Parrot integration: Ground Control with ANAFI drone platforms enables a simplified end-to-end solution, which the companies say will help enterprise drone fleets scale rapidly. Measure has seen some big changes: the …
Zenith AeroTech has flown it’s heavy lift tethered drone, the Quad 8 multi-rotor, for more than 108 hours of continuous flight. Zenith AeroTech is a leading developer of heavy-lift tethered aerial vehicles, known as TAVs. Tethered …
USA based LightWare LiDAR has announced the world’s smallest, lightest microLiDAR: the new SF45. Lightware says that the SF45 microLiDAR could provide drones with the “eyes” they need to see obstacles and navigate safely beyond visual …
Urban Air Mobility in Latin America is taking off – and with it comes the opportunity to revolutionize transportation and leapfrog traditional cost per mile transportation infrastructure. By: Dawn Zoldi When most people talk about …
![EHang Dispatches AAVs, Passenger Drones for Coronavirus Response [VIDEO]](https://dronelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EHang-216-and-EHang-216L-transporting-urgent-supplies-across-the-river2-e1623770701148-200x130.jpg)
