Drone delivery specialist Flirtey has been granted a patent that the company says will “enhance its fundamental technology”. The patent refers to an automatic parachute deployment system to support drone flights and aerial deliveries being carried out safely. The patent recognizes the ability of a drone’s technology to detect an …
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It’s often said that if you wish for something hard enough, it might just come true. That appears to be the latest avenue the team at Amazon is exploring as part of ongoing efforts to get the company’s drone delivery ambitions off the ground. Amazon Prime Air has become better …
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There are several problems with shooting drones out of the sky. Often that level of force is going to make the problem worse, not better. For starters, a damaged or busted drone could crash land anywhere or on anyone. The uncertainty and danger grow exponentially if it’s strapped with explosives …
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There are two universal truths in the drone industry. The first is that technology companies will file rafts of drone-related patents in an attempt to score easy PR and cover even the most obscure bases for the future. The second is that tech workers need the occasional caffeine hit from …
Read More »One of the principle challenges going through the mass rollout of drone supply providers is the issue of the final mile. Or, to be extra particular, the issue of the final 30 yards. How are packages going to be dropped off in a means that ensures that pets, kids and …
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Following the lead of Amazon, Intel, GoPro and Google, it appears to be like like one other expertise big is able to step into the drone trade. A patent found by LetsGoDigital means that South Korean firm Samsung is planning to develop a drone. As outlined on this PDF, Samsung’s drone might …
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There’s no scarcity of drone supply ideas which have been floated by main retailers. None extra so than Amazon, which is set to make its Prime Air service a actuality. Although testing for that’s at present underway in Cambridge, England, a current patent printed within the US exhibits how Amazon envisions …
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Mega-retailer Amazon continues to spread it corporate wings into the drone space, filing a patent for a new type of hybrid folding-wing design. The patent was filed in 2014 and published on Dec. 24. The application describes a drone design in which the aircraft “transitions in-flight between vertical flight configuration and …
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