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Drones look set to become a big part of the booming food delivery business, with Vietnamese delectables now taking to Australian skies. Roll’d Vietnamese announced on Thursday it had teamed up with Wing, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, to deliver its banh mi (baguettes), bao (steamed buns), rice …

This story about plans from Uber to conduct trials of commercial passenger drone technology by Kathryn Breakwell first appeared in the October 2019 edition of Australian Aviation. A rendering from Uber of a Skyport landing and departure point. (Uber) It may seem like a flashback scene from the animated sitcom …

Come next summer, the most remarkable thing about your home-delivered late-night California burrito won’t be the French fries inside. It’ll be that the San Diego speciality made part of its journey by drone, as part of a scheme to pull Uber’s food-delivery business financials out of a nosedive. At Forbes’ …

Consider the chaos on the streets of Los Angeles. An unprecedented number of cars idling in traffic. Drivers working for the ride-hail apps Uber and Lyft zooming about, picking up and dropping off fares. Buses rolling by, and commuters ambling to train stations. Cyclists, some aboard bike-share cycles, swerving to …

When Uber publicly filed for an initial public offering last week, it cemented its reputation as a technology behemoth with more than a few liabilities. One particularly weighty albatross: its Autonomous Technology Group, which since 2015 has poured hundreds of millions into building self-driving car tech it has yet to …