drone commercialization

Drone Racing League now an FAA-approved drone event organizer

Drone Racing League becomes the first-ever FAA-accredited drone event organizer

Drone delivery technology has accomplished some incredible things in 2021, delivering everything from hot wings to 3D-printed organs. Drones are already capable of piloting themselves, flying hundreds of miles on a single charge and navigating landscapes from the cities to the suburbs and everywhere in between.

So … why hasn’t drone delivery taken off? The easy answer is that FAA regulations in the United States are currently tighter than those in countries like Ireland, Canada, Uganda and Rwanda

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drone-racing-league-now-an-faa-approved-drone-event-organizer

DroneUp acquires airspace traffic management company AirMap

DroneUp completes acquisition of AirMap to bolster safe drone deliveries

Drone delivery in the United States has been a game of inches. Every so often the FAA will marginally loosen the restrictions holding back drone delivery, and drone companies will gain an inch of progress. Remote identification, operations over people, nighttime operations –– these are just a few of the small victories for drone delivery companies, but FAA regulations continue to keep the U.S. behind countries like Ireland, Canada, Uganda and Rwanda when it comes to drone delivery.

For the FAA,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/droneup-acquires-airspace-traffic-management-company-airmap

DroneDek latest to call for looser federal drone regulations

DroneDek the latest to pen letter to FAA, urging changes to drone regulations

When Dan O’Toole came up with the idea for DroneDek, he was just one man following Amazon’s vision of nationwide delivery by drone.

“I was daydreaming and I just started thinking about drone delivery,” O’Toole told Modern Shipper in an interview in October. “And then I thought, OK, the drone’s the easy part, the glamorous part, right? But where’s all this stuff gonna end up?”

Fast-forward a couple of years, and O’Toole was rivaling Amazon for that very same vision — and winning. Amazon’s drone...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dronedek-latest-to-call-for-looser-federal-drone-regulations

Smart mailboxes could soon be popping up all over the world

DroneDek secures $50 million purchase agreement with Indian conglomerate BEL

Does anybody even use mailboxes anymore? It seems like utility bills, political flyers and cards from Grandma are just about the only things being delivered via snail mail. But that’s about to change — the mailbox is getting a makeover.

DroneDek is the company leading that charge. The maker of the so-called “mailbox of the future” has been hard at work developing its patented smart receptacles, mailboxes that are designed to handle deliveries via nearly any mode –– including drone –– as well as...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/smart-mailboxes-could-soon-be-popping-up-all-over-the-world

Is drone racing the next bastion of innovation?

Draganfly and the Drone Racing League (DRL) are launching DRL Labs to test new drone innovations

Neon lights. A labyrinth of obstacles. Socially distanced, goggle-wearing athletes. With much of the sporting world put on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new global sport emerged from the shadows, and you’ve probably never seen anything like it.

Drone racing is very real, and it existed before the pandemic, with the sport’s premier league, the Drone Racing League (DRL), launching in 2015. But COVID-19 has taken it to new heights –– the DRL now boasts ​​over 250 million fans worldwide who...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/is-drone-racing-the-next-bastion-of-innovation

Flytrex will make chicken wings fly in North Carolina

Flytrex drones are coming to Holly Springs

Flytrex, the company that wants to bring drones to your backyard, announced on Tuesday an expansion of its drone delivery service to Holly Springs, North Carolina, a Smart Cities Award winner, where it will fly orders of chicken wings directly to residents’ front and backyards.

In partnership with the Federal Aviation Administration, the North Carolina Department of Transportation, the town of Holly Springs and Kite Realty Group Trust (NYSE: KRG), Flytrex will collaborate with Brinker...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/flytrex-will-make-chicken-wings-fly-in-north-carolina

Drone Disruptors: Flytrex is bringing drones to your backyard

Drone Disruptors: Flytrex is pushing last-mile drone delivery in U.S. suburbs

The world’s largest companies have been pushing drones as a delivery method of the future for nearly a decade now. The thing is, those same companies are starting to pull back. Recently, both Amazon and DHL, two of the biggest companies that have ventured into the drone space, have shied away from drones, with the latter ceasing drone development entirely.

With the bigger players cooling off on drones, the space is ripe for the picking for the hundreds of drone startups that have been innovating...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drone-disruptors-flytrex-is-bringing-drones-to-your-backyard

South Korean company bringing delivery drones to Phoenix

South Korean company pablo air drones technology logistics phoenix arizona

Drone delivery bulls took a hit after news of Amazon’s floundering U.K. drone operations broke on Tuesday, but plenty of smaller players are still working to bring drones to U.S. cities. The latest locale? Phoenix.

South Korea-based Pablo Air announced Wednesday the expansion of its drone delivery business into Phoenix, signing a memorandum of understanding with three local companies to begin testing its established services, as well as its newer innovations. The MOU loops in full-service...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/south-korean-company-bringing-delivery-drones-to-phoenix

New FAA rules put drone delivery closer to reality

A five-rotor drone lifts a package into the air.

Long-awaited regulations released Monday by the Federal Aviation Administration represent a big step toward wide-scale commercial use of drones in the U.S., including for package and cargo delivery, and full integration into the national airspace. 

The rules require unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to broadcast identification or location information and allow operators of small drones to fly over people and vehicles, and at night under certain conditions. The next major step toward integration is...

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