Drones

In yet another drone-related patent filing, Ford is looking at flying within aerial corridors above roads.

The e-commerce giant’s long-awaited drone delivery service finally got off the ground on Christmas Eve.

Walmart and DroneUp continued to expand their drone delivery footprint this week with launches in three new states.

The Government of Rwanda will enlist Zipline to be able to make autonomous deliveries to the nation’s entire population.

A Circuit survey shows that most delivery drivers are concerned about losing their jobs, but they are interested in working with driverless and drone deliveries.

Drone delivery provider Matternet is ready for takeoff after receiving a milestone Production Certificate from the FAA this week.

After launching commercial services in California and Texas, Amazon Prime Air came out with a new delivery drone design.

Alphabet’s Wing this week teamed with DoorDash on a limited drone delivery service in Logan, Australia, where it has operated since 2019.

Delivery drones are showing their last-mile value on a mission to hard-to-reach customers on Sanibel Island, Florida.

Medical drone deliveries

DroneDek and A2Z Drone Delivery are integrating DroneDek’s “mailbox of the future” with A2Z’s Rapid Delivery System drone solution.

Joby will work with Delta to build a service that uses autonomous drones to take passengers to and from the airport.

Atoke, a town of 3,000 people nestled in the Choctaw reservation in southeast Oklahoma, used to be home to herds of buffalo and bison (there is in fact a difference). Now this reservation, a hidden 11,000-square-mile parcel of land, has become one of the largest drone delivery testing sites in the world, according to FreightWaves’ Jack Daleo. 

Medical drone delivery specialist Zipline began flying commercially in Utah this week after months of testing.

On a reservation in rural southeastern Oklahoma, the Choctaw Nation is building the future of drone delivery.

Conventional wisdom says that drones are best for small-payload deliveries, but Sabrewing would beg to differ.

Together, Valqari and IDU Group are building urban drone infrastructure all the way from the sidewalk to the roofs of skyscrapers.

While drones have received plenty of hoopla, there are many questions that need to be answered. Efficient ground transport, though, is a viable and sustainable model for package delivery.

Wing has made more than 250,000 global drone deliveries, but the company remains in the early stages of its evolution.

Ranking the best (and worst) states for drone delivery in 2022