The FAA has approved a request from Flytrex to expand its drone delivery pilot program in North Carolina to include delivery to customers’ yards.
Skycart, a San Francisco-area drone startup, announced its Nimbus drone is capable of making four separate deliveries on a single flight.
Ondas Holdings is acquiring American Robotics with the expectation that it can incorporate the drone company’s data-collecting capabilities into its platform for industry verticals.
Hypower Lab said its hydrogen fuel cell can power drones for more than three hours, increasing flight time and utility.
“This imagery could be a huge benefit to our office,” NWS meteorologist Alex Sizemore said about using drones to survey storm damage in remote areas.
“It’s about speed, convenience and also being greener,” says Chris Jarvis, chief logistics officer at GoFor.
AgEagle CEO Michael Drozd discusses the kinds of situations in which drones will play a role in the short term — and how those roles will evolve in the longer term.
Drone delivery planning in urban environments requires many considerations, including emergency landing zones, no-fly zones, route planning, takeoff and landing sites and governmental regulations.
Anthony Smith, director of market experts for FreightWaves, and Yariv Bash, co-founder and CEO of Flytrex Aviation, dive into the near future for drone delivery and dispel misconceptions about the industry.
To gain public acceptance, drones need to be unobtrusive as much as possible, says veteran aviator and Workhorse Aerospace President John Graber.
UPS has ambitious plans for its drone airline, Flight Forward. Kevin Wasik, Flight Forward’s head of business development, explains why UPS is moving aggressively on drones during the DroneWaves Summit.
Bobby Healy, founder and CEO of Manna, sits down with Kevin Hill, executive publisher at FreightWaves, at the DroneWaves Summit to chat about the capabilities and economics of drone delivery.
Keynoting the DroneWaves Summit, Parimal Kopardekar said that safe and efficient drone integration depends on telling users where not to go.
Manna, a drone-as-a-service company based in Ireland, has secured $25 million in funding to fuel its research and development as it plans for production of delivery drones by 2023.
Wing, which has been testing drone delivery in Virginia, has requested an exemption from the Federal Aviation Administration guidelines that would allow it to operate drones remotely rather than from a central command station.
Hear from drone manufacturers, shippers and more that are utilizing these devices to completely revolutionize transportation at the first and last miles of supply chains.
AgEagle, a leading U.S.-based drone provider, has acquired Measure Global, a provider of software that helps drone operators manage their fleets.
A U.K. laundry services company that already utilizes an app for on-demand pickup and delivery of dirty laundry has now launched Laundry Drone to make that same pickup or drop-off via drone.
Domino’s is partnering with self-driving vehicle company Nuro to schedule pizza delivery for select customers in Houston with Nuro’s R2 robot vehicle.
Drone tests continue to accelerate, with A2Z Drone Delivery and DroneUp combining to complete commercial deliveries of Coca-Cola products in Georgia.
