Walmart testing driverless grocery delivery
Walmart seeks to bolster its online grocery business through autonomous home delivery.
Walmart seeks to bolster its online grocery business through autonomous home delivery.
R&D investment delivers top-5 status among FreightTech 25.
FedEx Express [NYSE: FDX] on Friday used an unmanned aerial vehicle instead of a truck for last-mile residential deliveries on behalf of pharmacy retailer Walgreens. The Oct. 18 deliveries were made by Wing, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, in Christianburg, Virginia, under a pilot program authorized by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). […]
First-of-its-kind FAA approval allows company to expand beyond medical deliveries.
Agency envisions using trucks as launch point for last-mile customers.
Anthony Levandowski, a star engineer at Google and Uber, is charged with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft in a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday, August 27.
Drones may be one of the key answers to last-mile delivery. Read about how drones are being used around the world.
Promises package deliveries up to 5 lbs. within 30 minutes.
A hard departure from the European Union will hit availability of fresh foods and increase costs as British supply chains contend with port delays and backlogs, industry group says.
Drones could someday deliver thousands of packages a day, but who will monitor all this air traffic?
Final-mile providers face surging headaches to go with surging demand for large-format shipments
Request follows FAA approval for Google drones in Virginia.
A few years ago the idea of using drones for last-mile delivery were just an idea. But the idea is becoming a reality in China, Indonesia and now the USA. Read Market Expert Cathy Roberson’s views on the use of drones for last-mile delivery.
Feds have exempted Wing Aviation from a block of regulations clearing way for an operating permit.
Truck electrification is ramping up quickly, but a number of challenges remain that must be solved before they see widespread adoption.
The nation’s top electricity regulator gives exclusive insight into how the infrastructure behind electric trucks could fuel the coming transportation transformation.
TechCrunch reports that SoftBank, a Japanese multinational holding group, has led a $940 million investment in autonomous delivery startup Nuro.
How close are human drivers to interacting with autonomous vehicles on the roads? That is the answer a panel at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit tried to solve on Wednesday.
Using the power of the crowds to create a successful mapping tool.
Google Search becomes part of XPO’s last-mile tracking portfolio.