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Daily Infographic: Walmart adds 1.8M homes to Dallas-Fort Worth drone delivery service
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Google’s Wing introduces new delivery drone with double the payload
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Wing — the drone delivery arm of Google parent...
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China’s DJI, facing US bans, launches global sales of delivery drone
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The company responsible for an estimated seven out of every 10 consumer drone sales worldwide is throwing its hat in the drone delivery ring.
China’s DJI, the market leader in consumer drones since 2015, this week announced that its recently unveiled FlyCart 30 model is now available globally. The company kicked off sales in China in August. But the international expansion marks its true entry into the drone delivery space.
Prior to last year, DJI made drones...
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What advanced air mobility operations might look like at state level
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A few months after the Federal Aviation Administration released its Innovate28 plan for scaled advanced air mobility (AAM) operations by 2028, Utah officials have revealed their own plan to integrate delivery drones, electric air taxis, vertiports and more into the state’s airspace.
At the request of the state Legislature, the Utah AAM Working Group, part of the Utah Department of Transportation’s Aeronautics Division, this week released a legislat...
Irish cargo airline ASL takes step toward heavy drone delivery
ASL Aviation Holdings, which operates cargo flights for global couriers Amazon, FedEx and DHL, is gearing up to add drone delivery to its portfolio of services.
The company said Tuesday that ASL Airlines Ireland, one of seven airlines in the Dublin-based group, has been awarded a provisional operator certificate for unmanned aircraft systems by the Irish Aviation Authority.
The optional certification gives subsidiary ASL Future Flight the ability to start commercial drone delivery of light cargo...
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Alphabet drone division Wing has new plan for citywide delivery networks
Despite the flurry of innovation taking place within the nascent drone delivery industry, there’s one area the vast majority of drone firms wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole: cities.
Simply put, drone logistics are more challenging in urban environments. How will they avoid not just people but also tall buildings? How will they pick up orders from stores in densely packed city centers? And most importantly, where will they land?
That’s why, until now, drones have found most of their success in ru...
Potential FTC probe caps whirlwind week for Amazon
Another week, another whirlwind of news surrounding e-commerce’s resident superpower.
Capping a week of news about investigations, cutbacks and worse-than-expected earnings, The Wall Street Journal on Friday reported that Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) faces a potential antitrust lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission in the coming months.
According to sources the Journal reported are familiar with the matter, the timing of the case is unclear and a suit may never be brought at all. The sources said...
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Daily Infographic: Amazon layoffs hit drone division
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