drone logistics
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...
Daily Infographic: Amazon layoffs hit drone division
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Breaking down Walmart’s 2022 in drone delivery
A promise kept can be a rare thing in the world of business, and it’s important to take the word of CEOs and other executives with a grain of salt.
But in the case of Walmart and its drone delivery service, company leaders have followed through on just about every prediction they’ve made.
The world’s largest retailer on Thursday released an assortment of statistics about its drone delivery network in 2022, revealing that it completed over 6,000 deliveries of items from ice cream to rotisserie...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/breaking-down-walmarts-2022-in-drone-delivery
Ford patent filing could put drones over public roads
Just a few months after publishing an ambitious drone delivery patent that would combine delivery vans with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Ford Motor Co. may have upped its own ante.
As company watchdog Ford Authority noted on Monday, a patent filing the automaker (NYSE: F) made in June 2021 and quietly published earlier this month calls for “systems and methods for operating drone flights over public roadways.”
Some...
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Walmart, DroneUp expand delivery service to Florida, Texas, Arizona
This week marked a milestone for the drone delivery industry when Rwanda became the first country in the world to establish a nationwide drone delivery network in collaboration with San Francisco-based Zipline.
The drone firm’s partnership with the Rwandan government opened up its service to the country’s entire population, something that had never been done. But the news probably got some observers wondering: Where’s the U.S.’s countrywide drone delivery service?
Given the snail’s pace of...
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Rwanda launches nationwide drone delivery service with Zipline
What began six years ago as a small pilot program using drones to deliver blood in remote areas of Rwanda has now evolved into a first-of-its-kind nationwide drone delivery network.
On Thursday, Bay Area-based drone delivery firm Zipline and the government of Rwanda announced a new partnership that will grant the company medical delivery service access to every single resident and household in the country.
The new partnership will triple Rwanda’s drone delivery volume by adding new delivery sites...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/rwanda-launches-nationwide-drone-delivery-service-with-zipline
Matternet CEO breaks down drone firm’s watershed FAA approval
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Amazon has been touting the prospect of drone delivery for over a decade now — but where are all the...
DroneDek integrates smart mailbox with A2Z Drone Delivery system
Drone delivery is about much more than just the drone. Just ask DroneDek and A2Z Drone Delivery.
The two companies, each of which focuses on a different piece of drone infrastructure, on Monday announced a technical integration partnership to combine DroneDek’s smart mailbox with A2Z’s second-generation Rapid Delivery System (RDS2) for drone delivery.
DroneDek’s “mailbox of the future” is a high-tech delivery receptacle featuring a drone charging station, a heated and cooled storage compartment,...
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Delta invests in Joby and home-to-airport drone service
Nobody likes a layover. Those hours spent at the airport would be better spent in Aruba, Jamaica or whatever destination you’re headed to.
But very soon there could be a different kind of connecting flight — one that you won’t want to pass up.
That’s because Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) on Tuesday announced a multiyear partnership with Joby Aviation Inc. (NYSE: JOBY), a Santa Cruz, California-based company that builds an autonomous, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) drone that has been...
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