As the Southeast attempts to return to normalcy in the wake of Hurricane Helene and prepare for Hurricane Milton, which is expected to make landfall near Tampa, Florida, Wednesday night, drone operators are filling a critical niche in disaster response and recovery.
Wing delivery drones will soon collect orders from Serve Robotics’ autonomous sidewalk robots, forming an autonomous, multimodal delivery network.
California-based A2Z Drone Delivery has launched a suite of autonomous drone docks — portable or permanent sites where drones charge and pick up or drop off packages, with no human interaction.
Dennis Winn of Clermont, Florida, was arrested on multiple charges, including a felony charge, of shooting a Walmart delivery drone.
Walmart will launch drone delivery in Dallas-Fort Worth this month, offering 30-minute delivery via their app, expanding their service to 1.8 million households with partners Zipline and Wing.
Walmart partner DroneUp can now fly drones beyond the visual line of sight.
Alphabet’s drone delivery service is working on a larger drone design that will be able to handle orders that currently need more than one drone to handle.
What will it mean for a consumer drone manufacturer from China to enter the delivery drone market on a global scale?
Walmart’s latest drone news could be a huge steppingstone for delivery drones in the United States.
Sean Cassidy led Amazon Prime Air’s safety, flight operations and regulatory affairs. His departure costs the firm a key relationship with the FAA.
The flight follows Zipline’s FAA approval to remove visual observers from its drone delivery operations, opening up longer routes and becoming accessible to more customers.
Drone manufacturer Elroy Air names its new aircraft a turbogenerator-hybrid electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft — hVTOL for short — and claims it’s the first of its kind to fly.
Workhorse Group made progress toward scaling its electric truck business, but being shut out of California incentives dented revenue.
The Utah Department of Transportation’s Aeronautics Division released a report on how drones, electric air taxis and other new aircraft may fit into the state’s skies.
Zipline is growing its presence in the medical space, enabling patients to get their prescriptions delivered by drone.
Wing gives an inside look into its expansion as drone delivery becomes more widespread.
Ameriflight says it is greenlighted to add the Matternet M2 to its fleet, allowing the first large-scale drone operation in the country.
Last week, Dronamics completed the successful first flight of its flagship Black Swan aircraft, flown remotely by two commercial airline pilots, near Bulgaria’s Balchik Airport.
Major aviation players are seeking FAA approval for remote pilots to fly aircraft where they can’t see them.
Amazon’s drone delivery dream isn’t dead, but it may be time for the firm to reassess its strategy.
DroneUp, the company powering drone delivery for the largest retailer in the world, has trimmed its head count.
California-based Zipline just raised $330 million at a $4.2 billion valuation — greater than any U.S. drone company or any drone delivery company globally.
ASL Aviation has several airlines that support express delivery companies and e-commerce retailers. It plans to serve them with drone delivery too.
The Mountain View, California-based drone delivery firm announced an array of new software and hardware updates.
Outlining the next phase of its development, Wing revealed its new approach to fully autonomous urban drone delivery networks.
Ameriflight is tentatively betting on two futuristic cargo aircraft from startup manufacturers to augment its feeder service for integrated express carriers.
Having obtained a milestone Standard Part 135 Air Carrier Certification, Flytrex is ready for takeoff.
As part of Amazon’s some 18,000 job cuts, a “significant number” of employees at several drone delivery facilities reportedly were laid off.
Cargo drone manufacturer and delivery provider Elroy Air hit a new high after signing a deal with Dublin-based LCI.
See how Walmart — quickly becoming one of the biggest names in drone delivery — and its network fared in 2022.
In yet another drone-related patent filing, Ford is looking at flying within aerial corridors above roads.
The e-commerce giant’s long-awaited drone delivery service finally got off the ground on Christmas Eve.
Walmart and DroneUp continued to expand their drone delivery footprint this week with launches in three new states.
The Government of Rwanda will enlist Zipline to be able to make autonomous deliveries to the nation’s entire population.
Matternet drones will begin flying a 7-minute route in Zurich, Switzerland, in one of the world’s largest beyond visual line of sight pilot programs.
Robotic delivery firm Kiwibot has launched service at Loyola Marymount University, leveraging Nvidia technology and satellites to create campuswide delivery.
Drone delivery provider Matternet is ready for takeoff after receiving a milestone Production Certificate from the FAA this week.
Supply chain and logistics companies got time in the limelight on Time magazine’s list of the 200 Best Inventions of 2022.
After launching commercial services in California and Texas, Amazon Prime Air came out with a new delivery drone design.
Alphabet’s Wing this week teamed with DoorDash on a limited drone delivery service in Logan, Australia, where it has operated since 2019.
Delivery drones are showing their last-mile value on a mission to hard-to-reach customers on Sanibel Island, Florida.
DroneDek and A2Z Drone Delivery are integrating DroneDek’s “mailbox of the future” with A2Z’s Rapid Delivery System drone solution.
Joby will work with Delta to build a service that uses autonomous drones to take passengers to and from the airport.
Medical drone delivery specialist Zipline began flying commercially in Utah this week after months of testing.
On a reservation in rural southeastern Oklahoma, the Choctaw Nation is building the future of drone delivery.
Conventional wisdom says that drones are best for small-payload deliveries, but Sabrewing would beg to differ.
Together, Valqari and IDU Group are building urban drone infrastructure all the way from the sidewalk to the roofs of skyscrapers.
While drones have received plenty of hoopla, there are many questions that need to be answered. Efficient ground transport, though, is a viable and sustainable model for package delivery.
Wing has made more than 250,000 global drone deliveries, but the company remains in the early stages of its evolution.
Drone systems operator American Robotics gets milestone approval and waiver from the FAA.
When it comes to drone delivery, some states are better prepared than others. Here are all of them ranked.
A new research paper found that no delivery method can match the energy efficiency of drones or small robots, but package delivery efficiency may be best left to vans.
During Workhorse’s recent earnings call, CEO Richard Dauch discussed the company’s goals for its last-mile drone delivery program.
Manna, an Ireland-based drone delivery company, will soon expand into the U.S. and mainland Europe.
Los Angeles-based A2Z Drone Delivery has introduced a flexible new delivery system that can handle up to 22 pounds of payload.
Ford is experimenting with a system that would allow drones to be controlled autonomously from delivery vans.
The high-tech mailbox from DroneDek handles both traditional mail and drone deliveries.
Flytrex can now reach 100,000 eligible customers after the FAA signed off on doubling its delivery radius.
Self-flying drones from Vimaan will be the eye in the sky for a PFS warehouse in Memphis, Tennessee.
College Station will join Lockeford, California, as one of Amazon’s earliest U.S. drone delivery test markets.
Drone delivery provider Zipline adds yet another health care company to its list of delivery partners.
Wing, the drone delivery arm of Alphabet, is laying out flight plans with an array of advanced aircraft prototypes.
Bay Area-based Elroy Air just signed another agreement to deliver an order of its Chaparral aircraft.
The world’s largest retailer filed a patent that would combine two of last-mile delivery’s latest innovations: drones and robots.
Drone delivery firm Zipline launched a commercial service in North Carolina less than a week after obtaining a historic FAA certification.
Zipline received an FAA Part 135 air carrier certification that gives it the largest commercial drone delivery radius in the U.S.
Germany’s Wingcopter, known for using drones to deliver medical supplies, is headed for a new frontier — grocery.
After enduring years of setbacks, Amazon’s drone delivery program is finally ready for takeoff.
Alphabet-backed Wing is hoping to expand its drone delivery service in Virginia through the introduction of a public delivery zone.
The contract logistics provider said it wants to create the world’s largest air- and ground-based security robotics fleet.
Flytrex, which operates drone delivery services in North Carolina and Texas, will deliver ice cream from Unilever’s The Ice Cream Shop.
Walmart announced it will add drone delivery to 32 locations in six states this year with partner DroneUp.
Wingcopter is partnering with Continental Drones Ltd. on what would be the world’s largest commercial deployment of delivery drones.
French automaker Renault is developing a hybrid last-mile delivery model that would deploy drones and e-bikes from delivery vans.
Drone pilot programs continue to pop up, but Amazon is generally not among those receiving attention as its program has reportedly stalled. What can be learned from the slow rollout of Prime Air?
Israel-based drone delivery company Flytrex will deliver subs from Jersey Mike’s to customers in a North Carolina town.
Drones delivered hot dogs and chips to hungry baseball fans as part of a pilot by Levy, Valqari, USOG and Purdue Athletics.
Long considered a technology of the future, drones are steadily carving out a niche in the final mile.
Wing, the drone delivery subsidiary of Alphabet, launched a commercial drone delivery service that may have implications for the last mile more generally.
Alphabet subsidiary Wing will deliver products from Walgreens and other retailers to customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.
FedEx Express will test a Chaparral autonomous drone for middle-mile transport of air cargo.
Flytrex is now delivering chicken wings via drone in Texas as it expands its test programs with Brinker International’s It’s Just Wings brand.
Medical Response Drones from Draganfly will be used to deliver lifesaving medical supplies like blood and wound care kits.
Swoop Aero, Skyports and BD Rowa are joining forces to integrate drones into pharmaceutical and health care supply chains.
A report from an FAA committee on line-of-sight rules may push drone delivery to new heights.
Natilus is developing robot cargo jets in four sizes and has orders from five customers.
Elroy Air wants to enable same-day delivery to every person on the planet. It’s now one step closer with the reveal of its flagship model.
Germany’s Wingcopter struck a deal with aerial medical services company Spright to deliver medical supplies to underserved areas of the U.S. via drone.
DroneUp CEO Tom Walker sat down with Modern Shipper to discuss his company’s expanding delivery business, including its partnership with Walmart.
Australian officials’ resolution of recent raven-on-drone attacks isn’t much to crow about.
A new report predicts that the adoption of drones and self-driving delivery vehicles will accelerate in the years ahead, creating a $4.9 billion market by 2030.
Straight from the mouths of executives at Flytrex, DroneDek, Zipline and Draganfly, here are predictions on where drone delivery will be in five years.
Drone delivery reached new heights in 2021, and as a result, there was no shortage of interest in the technology.
The drone delivery company gets a big boost in North Carolina, where it now covers about 10,000 households with its delivery service.
The FAA has greenlighted the Drone Racing League to take the lead on drone safety as the first-ever UAS event organizer and the newest member of the agency’s Partnership for Safety Plan.
In some drone delivery consolidation, DroneUp acquired digital airspace and automation company AirMap and its airspace traffic management technology.
DroneDek CEO Dan O’Toole spoke to Modern Shipper about his pleas to the FAA and how drones can solve the supply chain backlog.
