Drone Disruptors

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

Drone Disruptors: DroneDek’s mailbox of the future

Drone Disruptors: DroneDek and the mailbox of the future

Welcome to this final installment of Drone Disruptors. So far, Modern Shipper has sat down with four CEOs from four of the most dynamic startups in the drone delivery space. Each brings something unique to the industry: Flytrex wants to bring drones to your backyard; Volansi envisions being a fly on the wall; Matternet seeks to fly in cities; and Elroy Air prefers to fly between them.

Read: Drone Disruptors: Elroy Air and the cargo droneRead: Drone Disruptors: Matternet is taking cities into the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drone-disruptors-dronedeks-mailbox-of-the-future

Drone Disruptors: Elroy Air and the cargo drone

Drone Disruptors Elroy Air and the cargo drone for middle mile heavy duty deliveries

Welcome back! In the first two parts of the Drone Disruptors series, we took a look at Flytrex’s backyard drone delivery and Volansi’s ecosystem of drones and autonomy. In the most recent installment, we got to hear about Matternet’s vision of drones zipping between the skyscrapers of the world’s biggest cities.

Read: Drone Disruptors: Matternet is taking cities into the skiesRead: Drone Disruptors: Volansi’s autonomous drone ecosystemRead: Drone Disruptors: Flytrex is bringing drones to your...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drone-disruptors-elroy-air-and-the-cargo-drone

Drone Disruptors: Matternet is taking cities into the skies

Drone Disruptors: Matternet is bringing drone delivery to cities around the world

So far in the Drone Disruptors series, we’ve taken a look at two distinctly different players in the drone delivery space. Israel-based Flytrex hopes to become the drone of the U.S. suburbs, flying over residential neighborhoods and airdropping cups of coffee to your backyard. Then there’s Volansi, headquartered in the Bay Area, a company seeking to fly in more remote areas – including over the ocean.

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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drone-disruptors-matternet-is-taking-cities-into-the-skies

Drone Disruptors: Volansi’s autonomous drone ecosystem

Drone Disruptors: Volansi's autonomous drone ecosystem can make deliveries just about anywhere with the click of a button

It’s that time of week again. In the first installment of Drone Disruptors, Modern Shipper talked with Flytrex co-founder and CEO Yariv Bash about bringing drone deliveries to your backyard, including the utopian possibility of a subscription to your morning coffee (via drone, of course).

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First time trying drone delivery & we ordered Starbucks! At the...

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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