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Zipline secures key operational approval for drone package deliveries
This story originally appeared at flyingmag.com.
Drone delivery’s top dog just added a bark to its bite.
Zipline, with 750,000 deliveries and 50 million autonomous miles flown to date arguably making it the industry’s undisputed titan, has received Federal Aviation Administration authorization to remove visual observers (VOs) from its beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations.
The company, which has already taken a massive bite out of the global drone delivery market share, now adds a key...
Flytrex granted FAA approval for long-range commercial drone deliveries
The drone delivery industry, just like the unmanned aircraft that power it, is currently flying well below the stratosphere.
Among the drone firms that have made their 2022 delivery figures public, none eclipsed more than a few thousand deliveries, mainly owing to the Federal Aviation Administration’s stringent regulations around the young industry.
Those rules, designed to ensure the safety and privacy of the public, have limited commercial drone delivery operations to a handful of companies...
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
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
Supply chain, logistics firms show out on Time’s Best Inventions of 2022
If you follow the supply chain and logistics space, it should come as no surprise that the industry is finally entering the modern era.
Every year for the past two decades, Time magazine has compiled a list of the 100 best, most exciting and most unique inventions from around the world. Last year’s list featured innovations from a few supply chain and logistics companies, like Nuro’s self-driving R2 delivery robot and Watershed’s Carbon Cutter.
But supply chain and logistics companies have never...
Zipline begins medical drone deliveries in Utah
There are two pet peeves that just about every sick person has in common: a trip to the doctor’s office and a trip to the pharmacy.
The first problem has been addressed by services like telehealth, which take the visit out of the doctor’s visit. But unless you live next door to a pharmacy, you will probably still need to get dressed and go for a drive.
Unless you live in Utah’s Salt Lake Valley.
This week, drone delivery firm Zipline began flying commercially in the region with Intermountain...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/zipline-begins-medical-drone-deliveries-in-utah
Zipline partners with MultiCare on drone delivery to hospitals, doctors’ offices
Drones are going to the emergency room.
Through its latest partnership, drone delivery firm Zipline will airdrop medical supplies like lab samples, medications and test kits to hospitals, laboratories and doctors’ offices in Tacoma, Washington. Zipline will work with nonprofit organization MultiCare Health Systems, which operates a network of medical facilities in the area.
The arrangement aims to create an on-demand delivery model for MultiCare’s providers using electric, autonomous aircraft....
Zipline adds to US drone delivery footprint with North Carolina expansion
Less than a week after securing a Part 135 air carrier certification from the Federal Aviation Administration, drone delivery firm Zipline is putting its new credentials to work.
The Bay Area-based company on Tuesday announced its commercial expansion into North Carolina, where it began delivering medical products such as prescriptions and personal protective equipment last week. To start, deliveries are servicing a 7,800 square mile area out of Zipline’s distribution hub in Kannapolis.
Of...