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People living in part of Sweden will soon be receiving food deliveries by aerial drone. The service, which utilizes multicopters that look rather like old-timey milk transportation cans, may subsequently be introduced throughout the country and beyond…. Continue reading “Flying milk can” drones to start drop-delivering food in Sweden
Pterodynamics has taken its unique and fascinating Transwing drone out for sea trials with the US Navy, demonstrating its ability to land autonomously on a moving target. Its dihedral folding wings give it exceptional range and cargo capacity.Continue … Continue reading Unique 13-foot transforming drone nails moving target in Navy trials
Back in 2021, researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden partnered with Everdrone to test drone delivery of defibrillators to real-world heart attacks victims. Now the company has announced a multipurpose drone to support first responders.Continu… Continue reading Everdrone E2 launched to deliver life-saving medical equipment in minutes
Drone maker Wingcopter has partnered with the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, the REWE Group, Vodafone, Riese & Müller and the city of Michelstadt for a pilot project aimed at delivering groceries to customers in remote regions of Germany.Con… Continue reading Wingcopter delivers groceries by drone to remote districts in Germany
Carrying up to 96 small USPS packages in its internal cargo bay, the new Cento needs nothing more than two parking spaces for takeoff, landing and automatic unloading. Bay Area company MightyFly is working with the FAA to expand its long-range flight a… Continue reading MightyFly’s new autonomous cargo drone carries 100 lb for 600 miles
Amazon has lofty and long-held ambitions when it comes to drone deliveries, and over the years we’ve seen that translate into continual tinkering with the vehicles that will carry them out. The company has today offered a glimpse of its latest Prime Ai… Continue reading Amazon says its new delivery drone will fly through light rain
Startup Matternet has been operating at the edge of drone delivery technology for years, and has now taken an important step forward. The company’s M2 drone has received a Type Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the first non… Continue reading Landmark approval edges Matternet’s delivery drone toward everyday use
We first heard of Amazon’s plans to delivery Prime packages by drone way back in 2013, followed by the start of testing a couple of years later. The company reckoned that the service was just months away in 2019, but now it actually looks like it’s hap… Continue reading Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service set to fly in California this year
Many of us will be familiar with package deliveries by truck, some may get their hot meals delivered by cargo bike and a few might even have had meds arrive by drone. Now Renault has combined all three for the E-Tech Master OptiModale concept.Continue … Continue reading Renault goes for the last-mile triple with OptiModale delivery concept
Back in January, Elroy Air showed off a pre-production version of an autonomous cargo drone capable of carrying 500-lb (227-kg) loads over 300 miles (482 km), and we’ve now learned FedEx plans to soon put these capabilities to the test. It has teamed u… Continue reading FedEx explores aerial shipments using Elroy Air’s heavy-lift cargo drone