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Ford Motor Co. last week published a patent that outlines a system for “decentralized hybrid air-ground autonomous last-mile goods delivery.” That’s a mouthful, but essentially Ford wants to use its delivery vans to directly launch and control unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. Continue reading
Boots has become the first community pharmacy in the UK to transport prescription-only medicines by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Continue reading
Auterion, the open source company building the software-defined future for mobile robotics and powering global drone manufacturers, announced new data from its 2022 “Consumer Attitudes on Drone Delivery” Report. Continue reading
Wing has unveiled a series of new prototype aircraft designed to handle a variety of payloads. The company said the new drones will share the same underlying components with the aircraft currently in use delivering pharmaceuticals and other small packages in the suburbs outside of Dallas-Fort Worth. Continue reading
Bristow Group Inc., a global provider of innovative and sustainable vertical flight solutions, has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Elroy Air to pre-order 100 Chaparral hybrid-electric cargo VTOL aircraft. Continue reading
NHS cancer patients will be the first in the world to benefit from chemotherapy delivered by drone as part of a new trial, NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard announced. The drones, set to make their first flight in the coming weeks, will mean that the lifesaving treatment can be picked up and dropped to patients on the same day. Continue reading
Danish energy firm Ørsted is teaming up with Danish logistics firm DSV to trial drone deliveries of spare parts and equipment to its 400MW Anholt wind farm in the Kattegat area of the North Sea, between Denmark and Sweden. Continue reading
MissionGO Unmanned Systems, a global supplier of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) production and operations, and Airspace Link, a UAS technology and infrastructure company, teamed up for Michigan’s first real-world cargo delivery operations via UAS. Continue reading