Drone Delivery

Amazon‘s drone delivery project has resulted in the filing of dozens of patents.  We’ve seen concepts for drones hitching rides on vans, a “welcome mat” fashion touchdown pad, folding wing designs, and even flying warehouses.   A brand new patent utility, filed in February however revealed yesterday, describes a plan for …

A current article printed on Recode.web speculated that the privatization of air site visitors management, as introduced by President Donald Trump earlier this week, might really velocity up drone integration – and the business purposes that may’t be utilized till it’s full, like drone supply. “The proposal to privatize air traffic …

By Anneli Salo (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 ] National Donut Day is well known on the primary Friday in June – and as a part of per week lengthy celebration in Denver, the mayor’s donuts have been delivered by drone. LaMar’s Donuts in Denver supplied donuts for the mayor and hearth …

Drones are slowly creeping into extra points of our day by day lives. Soccer followers in Portugal should have realized as a lot by now, after a person standing on high of a hoverboard/drone hybrid flew across the stadium earlier than delivering the match ball to the referee. The dramatic Man Riding …

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, …

AUVSI President and CEO Brian Wynne and Shyam Chidamber, drone supply firm Flirtey‘s “Senior Advisor and Chief Evangelist,” testified earlier than the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on “Delivery to Consumers.” Wynne and Chidamber joined representatives from Postmates (a platform for native couriers) and Georgetown University.  Each panel member …

Africa is one of the quickest rising markets for the business drone business, and the Drones Africa Summit, held this fall, highlights drone innovation and purposes throughout the continent.  Drone firms in the security and safety, inspection providers, insurance coverage, and wildlife administration sectors will talk about new purposes and …

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. …

picture: Amazon Amazon has revealed extra particulars about their drone supply program this month at the invitation-only MARS expertise convention.  Steven Levy of Backchannel was current at the occasion, and experiences that Amazon is “definitely serious” about making drone supply a major a part of their operations. “I got some …

picture: Sven, CC by-SA three.zero Most drone trade gamers working in the direction of drone supply can agree: these functions could also be a good distance off within the US, resulting from laws that don’t but permit for common flight past line of sight or in extremely populated areas.  But Walmart’s …