A2Z Drone Delivery and DroneUp joined a partnership to complete commercial deliveries of Coca-Cola cans with Coffee products to residents of Coffee County, Georgia. DroneUp managed the flights using A2Z’s Rapid Delivery System (RDS1) and Walmart helped facilitate the deliveries. The Rapid Delivery System (RDS1) used a tether that drops packages to their destination, which …
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Drone delivery firm Zipline — already considered the world’s largest automated on-demand delivery service — raises $250 million for “expansion into new industries and geographies” including “instant” e-commerce — all which raises the medical drone delivery company’s valuation to $2.75 billion. Zipline has utilized specially designed and manufactured aircraft to establish themselves in developing countries …
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Walmart announced on June 16th, 2021 that they will continue to invest in drone delivery companies and that services are to start in a store possibly near you in coming months. The operations are set to begin at an Arkansas store within months. By employing drones to customers that live in close proximity to its …
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Research firm, Facts and Factors, have published a new research report which forecasts that the drone delivery market will grow at a 53% CAGR from 2020 – 2026. According to the research report: “The global Drone Package Delivery Market was estimated at USD 528 Million in 2020 and is expected to reach USD 6,773 Million …
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Israeli drone delivery company, Flytrex, has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for drone delivery and flight over people. This makes it possible for Flytrex to expand their drone delivery of retail goods in Fayetteville, NC: “The newly granted waiver permits Flytrex to operate its drone system above people, allowing for the largest-scale …
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Vertical Aerospace’s Urban Air Mobility (UAM) solution is expected to be the Rolls-Royce — luxury engineering — of passenger drones. This means that the electrical power system of Rolls-Royce will be integrated into Vertical Aerospace’s “piloted all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicle.”* According to a press release, the drone will carry as many as …
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Swoop Aero medical drone offers rapid delivery to a pharmacy in regional Queensland in Australia that eliminates a three-hour trip to the nearest pharmacy. The company’s plans to begin trials are doing so in partnership with Australia’s major healthcare supplier, Symbion, as well as pharmacy retailer, TerryWhite Chemmart. Swoop Aero is not new to delivering …
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Seattle-based Amazon, the giant online shopping giant, won Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to operate its fleet of Prime Air delivery drones on August 31, 2020. This means getting an Amazon package delivered from the sky is closer to becoming a reality — as it opens the doors to a major transformation in the ways …
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Dragonfly is a NASA mission that delivers a rotorcraft to Saturn’s moon Titan. It is a “relocatable lander” drone designed to fly on Titan, one of Saturn’s many moons, which is considered to be a fairly conducive place to fly a drone. The reason for choosing Titan is due to the fact that its atmosphere …
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Zing, a Florida-based end-to-end drone delivery platform which builds autonomous flight software and aerial logistics hardware, joins BEYOND to develop and scale their drone delivery operations. This joint venture will enable rapid and eco-friendly drone delivery to every suburban neighborhood throughout the world. This platform allows licensed drone pilots from anywhere in the country to …
