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Wing plans to roll out elements of its decentralised Wing Delivery Network system by mid-2024. (Source: Wing) Google Wing delivery drones will overhaul how its devices pick up packages by removing the need for a store employee to wait for the aircraft to arrive. The business said the change, along …

In the dark of night, a drone takes off from a Toronto hospital rooftop, the hum of its rotors barely audible over the bustling sounds of the cars and pedestrians below in Canada’s largest metropolis. On its maiden flight, with a bird’s-eye view of the city’s glistening skyline as it …

Perched in his fire tower high above the pine trees, Nick Dutton leans back and nods to the cascading hills and mountains behind him. “I love being out here, just away from stuff,” he says. “I mean, you can’t really complain.” Dutton, a fire tower operator, is sitting in his …

On Friday night in an old newspaper printing plant in Austin, the future of drone automation lifted off, accelerated and flew, nearly fast enough to beat one of the best drone pilots in the world. Gabriel Kocher, known in the professional Drone Racing League as Gab707, sat behind a net, …