Home Delivery World panelists: Innovate, fail fast and listen

For e-commerce customers, there is nothing more frustrating than a poor delivery experience.

“My most frustrating experience is when I get a notification that my package has arrived and I go outside and look and it’s not there, and I look around … and then a couple of hours later it arrives,” Penelope Register-Shaw, chief strategy officer for The FrontDoor Collective, a group of networked delivery service providers, said during a panel on last-mile delivery offerings during last week’s Home...

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Matternet readies cargo drone for FAA tests

One of the country’s largest small drone manufacturers is ready to begin durability and reliability testing of one of its cargo delivery units with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) this year.

Mountain View, California-based Matternet announced Tuesday that the testing with the agency brings the company’s M2 drone closer to receiving special type certification for unmanned aircraft systems.

Achieving this certification from the FAA will establish that Matternet’s M2 drone is...

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