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. UPS (NYSE:UPS) announced today that it has successfully tested a drone that launches from the top of a UPS® package car, autonomously delivers a package to a home and then returns to the … [Read more...] about UPS Is Testing Residential Delivery via Drone & Trucks
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UPS and CyPhy Works Test Drone Delivery
Package delivery giant UPS announced today that it is testing drone delivery to remote locations with MA drone maker CyPhy Works. Thursday, the companies "staged a mock delivery of urgently needed medicine from Beverly, Mass. to Children’s Island, which is about three miles off the Atlantic coast," UPS and CyPhy Works announced in a statement. The UPS Strategic Enterprise … [Read more...] about UPS and CyPhy Works Test Drone Delivery
Drone Technology Investments: Place Your Bets…
(Source: Forbes) Early Bets Are On The Table The drone industry start-up and emergent technology bets will shake out into three areas. In the analogy of a good old-fashioned game of poker, here are the hands currently in play: Bet #1: Package and cargo delivery: Royal Flush—for the house. Bet #2: Aerial observation and imaging: Pair of eights Bet #3: Enabling … [Read more...] about Drone Technology Investments: Place Your Bets…
