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Matternet’s M2 Drone System Enabling New U.S. Hospital Delivery Network at Wake Forest Baptist Health Matternet and UPS have expanded their ground-breaking hospital delivery network, adding North Carolina’s Wake Forest Baptist Health medical campus to their operations. Matternet’s M2 drone system is enabling the new hospital delivery network, in collaboration with …

The five winners of the second annual XCELLENCE Humanitarian Award have been announced at AUVSI XPONENTIAL.  The award was once again sponsored by DJI.  Image courtesy of Zipline More of our AUVSI Coverage: Drones for Good: The Winners The 2019 AUVSI XCELLENCE Humanitarian Award was dedicated to celebrating drone operations …

As information of the FAA’s UAS Integration Pilot Program partnerships continues to make headlines in throughout drone media, the 10 chosen members are scrambling to share the excellent news. Fittingly, North Carolina – the “First in Flight” State – is among the many checklist of candidates to affix this system, which …

For North Carolina drone customers, December ‘tis the season to be … educated about new UAS legal guidelines. The NCDOT reminded unmanned pilots this week that two new legal guidelines go into impact on Dec. 1. Both have been handed in July and the payments each revise present drone legal …

Thanks to the Wright Brothers’ well-known maiden voyage, North Carolina is called the First in Flight State. True to the motto, the Tarheel State (which is a very totally different origin story!) continues to take the lead in drone innovation. The state Department of Transportation launched a feasibility research final …