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When it involves drone supply, Amazon has not been in need of concepts – or patents.  Since launching the drone supply mission, Amazon has give you patents for bird-house like docking stations, drones hitching rides on the backs of vehicles and buses, large floating warehouses, and folding drone designs.  The firm …

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 …

Standard photography drones are expected to make record sales over the festive period. But we thought it would be a good idea to look ahead at what the industry might have to offer in the years to come. So, apart from your regular UAVs for aerial photography, what are five …

Source: U.S. Patent Office When we think of Amazon and drones, we think of airborne delivery. But with a new patent awarded to the retailer on Tuesday, Amazon wants to expand UAV technology, making drones smaller, lighter, cheaper and responsive to voice commands. In the company’s patent application, Amazon envisions …

wp-image-43139″ src=”http://dronelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Zipline-Zip-Outbound-1024×506.jpg” alt=”delivery drone” width=”328″ height=”162″ srcset=”//dronelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Zipline-Zip-Outbound-1024×506.jpg 1024w, //dronelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Zipline-Zip-Outbound-300×148.jpg 300w, //dronelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Zipline-Zip-Outbound-768×380.jpg 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px”/>Drone delivery is big news, with drones delivering everything from blood platelets to burritos.  While drone delivery has been a hot topic in the drone industry for sometime, there aren’t many companies who are making it …

News and Commentary.  Recreational drones – once the darling of drone headlines and drone manufacturers alike – may be taking a backseat to the commercial drone industry. When Paul Misener, vice president for global innovation policy and communications for Amazon,  gave a keynote address at the InterDrone 2016 conference in …