Leeds Bradford Airport is set to launch a pop-up airport for delivery drones making journeys around the Leeds city region. Startup partner Urban-Air Port, which has created the world’s first drone airport in Coventry, will develop the off-grid, hydrogen-powered hub that will cater for a range of unmanned and manned …
Read More »FedEx to test autonomous drone cargo delivery in 2023
FedEx founder Fred Smith to step down from CEO, says the company has ‘a rigorous succession plan.’ Elroy Air’s autonomous, electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drone will take to the skies for testing in 2023 as part of a partnership with shipping giant FedEx. WHO IS RAJ SUBRAMANIAM, FEDEX’S …
Read More »10 Things in Tech: Amazon Drone Plans
You’re halfway through the week, readers. Leaked documents show that Amazon plans to expand its drone delivery service soon, and a new list shows employees’ picks for the companies with the best culture. Let’s get started. If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Download Insider’s app – click …
Read More »It’s part drone, part plane, and headed to the skies in 2025
At nine-thirty in the evening, one otherwise nondescript day in November 1954, a Belgian man named Roelants was riding his bicycle in the village of Dudzele, West Flanders. As he passed a dairy, he witnessed a bright light rapidly descend from the sky. As he cycled closer, the light — …
Read More »Puzzling Out the Drone War Over Ukraine
The midtown Manhattan “wiretap nest,” as the 55th Street listening post came to be known, remains one of the largest and most elaborate private eavesdropping operations ever uncovered in the United States. Subscribers whose phones were tapped at the time of the raid included a range of New York commercial …
Read More »Construction Drone Market 2030 Growth Opportunities, Top Key…
Global Construction Drone Market increase in adoption of construction drones in the construction and infrastructure sectors. In addition, rapid urbanization along with population growth PORTLAND, OR, UNITES STATES, March 25, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — global construction drone market size was valued at $4,800.0 million in 2019, and is projected to reach …
Read More »Project Skyway: World’s largest network of ‘drone superhighw…
The idea of a drone superhighway may sound like a concept from the latest science fiction blockbuster. But it could soon become a reality in England, with the submission of plans to build a network across the Midlands and the Southeast. A consortium led by software provider Altitude Angel has …
Read More »Terra Drone Raises $70 Million in Series B Funding
TOKYO, March 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Drone and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) technology company Terra Drone Corporation announced today that it has raised $70 million (8 billion Japanese yen) in Series B funding with investments from Mitsui & Co., Ltd., SBI Investment Co., Ltd., Tokyu Land Corporation, Kyushu …
Read More »Air Taxi, Drone Delivery – they got the money now
Need an air taxi, or a drone delivering items to your front yard. Skyports is the start of such a development, and now the next of funding in developing the future or transport is beginning. Skyports is a drone service provider offering cargo deliveries as well as survey and surveillance …
Read More »AI in warfare: Russia’s autonomous “suicide” drone spotted i…
According to the news outlet Daily Star, a “suicide drone” was seen hovering in Ukraine, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy its potential target. Unlike a traditional drone, it identifies its targets and blows them up using artificial intelligence, and it does not have to be controlled by a human operator either. …
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