UAS VISION
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Walmart has announced that it is teaming up with Zipline to launch a first-of-its-kind drone delivery operation in the U.S. The new service will make on-demand deliveries of select health and wellness products with the potential to expand to general merchandise. Continue reading
Around 400 companies from more than 30 countries and regions around the world presented over 1,000 drones at the fourth Drone World Congress in Shenzhen City, south China’s Guangdong Province, on Sunday. Continue reading
Tesco is to trial home deliveries by drone in a move that could allow small items to be despatched to customers within 30 minutes to an hour of ordering.
Elbit Systems’ Hermes 900 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) recently successfully completed a series of flight demonstrations for the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). Continue reading
Years ago, Walmart founder Sam Walton famously said, “I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been.” It remains a guiding principle at Walmart to this day. Continue reading
Manifold Robotics has announced an agreement with the New York Power Authority (NYPA), the nation’s largest state public power organization, to develop unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) capable of operating safely near power lines. Continue reading
Pipistrel, a pioneer of Type Certified electric aviation, is presenting the Nuuva V300 as the flagship model of the Nuuva series of unmanned air vehicles (UAV). This one‑of‑a‑kind aircraft embodies our vision to disrupt aerial cargo transportation by commercializing the use of electrical vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles. Continue reading
The “seamless drone” created by developers in Kyoto Prefecture is seen entering a warehouse that does not have GPS signal reception in the prefectural city of Nantan, on July 20, 2020
A business venture in western Japan has developed a drone that can be operated on autopilot in places with no GPS reception, such as below girder bridges or in tunnels — a promising device for infrastructure maintenance. Continue reading