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Image – Reuters Reuters is reporting that Japan is hopeful of finalizing its plans for drone bundle ship by June ninth of this yr The aim is to have drones delivering packages in Japan by 2020 adopted self driving vehicles in 2022. “The priorities are improving life expectancy, revolutionising transport, …

IBM has introduced its been granted a patent for transferring packages between drones throughout flight. The invention described in US Patent No. 9,561,852: In flight switch of packages between aerial drones helps to increase the vary of drones which can be delivering packages from a warehouse to a buyer’s residence. …

Whenever a information headline contains the phrases “drones” and “shipping,” most individuals assume it’s one other article about Amazon or UPS. However, a California startup is setting its aerial sights on a bigger market performed out on a world scale. Bay-area primarily based Natilus is growing a 30-foot lengthy, fixed-wing …

UPS will not be an organization that plans to be left behind. With WalMart, Amazon, DHL and others all making forays into subsequent gen bundle supply methods utilizing drones, UPS is trying to preserve tempo.  UPS (NYSE:UPS) introduced at present that it has efficiently examined a drone that launches from …

Last week we wrote about Ehang’s record-breaking gentle present in Guangzhou, China, in which 1,000 drones had been used in a drone swarm. The earlier record-holder was Intel, with a swarm of 500 drones, and Lady Gaga’s current halftime efficiency on the Super Bowl used 300 of Intel’s drones, popularizing the drone …

While it’s impossible to track each and every drone company in such a fast-moving industry, we’ve done our best to highlight the biggest players and to give you a sense of who is doing what in the drone industry. Make sure to bookmark this page if you’re doing industry research. 🙂 …

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 …

Image Source Amazon filed a bevy of drone-related patents this week, a total of four in all. Most prominent among the patents is a patent for a drone with foldable wings. Other patents are for a system for determining the center of gravity for a payload that’s put on a delivery …

A top U.S. relief agency is enlisting drones in the War on Zika. This past week, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) released a list of finalists in the Combating Zika and Future Threats: A Grand Challenge for Development. Drone startup Vayu was among the winners that will …