drone technology

Alphabet drone delivery arm Wing set to deliver in cities

Wing, the subsidiary of Alphabet/Google, bringing drone delivery service to Dallas-Fort Worth

Drones have delivered some pretty cool things in 2021. Zipline drones have delivered hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 vaccines to people in rural Africa and the suburbs of the United States. Drones from Flytrex are flying chicken from El Pollo Loco to customers in Southern California. Drones were even used as part of an organ transplant procedure when Airspace Link and Workhorse Group partnered to deliver 3D-printed kidneys.

All of these deliveries have one thing in common, though; none of them...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/alphabet-drone-delivery-arm-wing-set-to-deliver-in-cities

H3 Dynamics secures $26M in mission to decarbonize airspace

H3 Dynamics gets $26 million series B funding to decarbonize air cargo and drone delivery logistics

The environmental benefits of flying over driving are hard to dispute. Aviation accounts for about 12% of all carbon emissions from transport, a fraction of the 74% of emissions pumped out by road transport – in fact, today’s aircraft have about twice the fuel efficiency as the earliest jet airliners from the 1960s. But there’s a problem – demand is through the roof.

Air cargo is, both literally and figuratively, taking off. According to the International Air Transport Association, taking...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/h3-dynamics-secures-26m-in-mission-to-decarbonize-airspace

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).

Read: Drone Disruptors: Flytrex is bringing drones to your backyard

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

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drone-disruptors-volansis-autonomous-drone-ecosystem

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

Drone highways in the sky could be on the horizon

Drone highways could be the future, but not everyone agrees

Set in 2062, “The Jetsons’” whimsical world of flying cars and robot housekeepers captivated young viewers with a high-tech future. But Hanna-Barbera got it wrong: At least part of that future may be four decades early.

No longer the stuff of science fiction, highways in the sky are a very real proposition. Already, four states have test-run legislation that restricts drones to aerial corridors. Drone companies, states and the Federal Aviation Administration are working to regulate the national...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drone-highways-in-the-sky-could-be-on-the-horizon

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

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