From the distance comes a high-pitched whining. It sounds horrible, like a giant mosquito. Or maybe a herd of angry mice screaming in a wind tunnel. It is in fact a flying burrito. And it... Read more
At Amsterdam Drone Week yesterday, James Burgess of Google X spinoff Wing shows off a system of drone delivery that’s made over 2500 customer flights in a test outside of Canberra, Aus... Read more
In the past few months, we’ve had plenty of news in the drone delivery space. While regulations don’t appear to be making room for beyond line of sight flight anytime soon, sever... Read more
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is shutting down the solar-powered drone program – Titan – run by division X, which was designed to provide Internet access to remote are... Read more
Google has won a new patent for an emergency drone call system. While Google has filed patents for delivery receptacles and delivery drones, this patent is for a humanitarian drone communica... Read more
The drone lobby has been in the news of late, as the NYTimes Bits Blog reported a couple of weeks ago that a frenzy of industry stakeholders had descended upon Washington in an effort to inf... Read more
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has filed a patent for a “delivery receptacle” to help with drone delivery. The patent, which Reuters reported was filed on Tuesday, call... Read more
Regulators are looking at satellite tracking as a way to move beyond laws to make sure that drones who may in future be allowed to operate beyond the line of sight (delivery drones, for exam... Read more
57% of the world is without Internet access and can’t use Facebook to post new boyfriend pictures, or use Google to search for new boyfriends. They can’t even read this post (ga... Read more
The race is on: drone delivery has moved from the realm of fantasy to reality as commercial giants Google, Amazon, Walmart and others vie to be the first to implement a delivery system. In h... Read more