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Dronamics Cargo Drone Airline Awarded EUR2.6 Million Grant from EIC Accelerator Program

eVTOL Insights Editorial29 November 2022

Dronamics, the world’s “first cargo drone airline” with license to operate in Europe, announced last week it has been awarded a EUR2.5 million grant by the European Commission under the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator program, reports ...

South Korea: Drone Delivery Trials Ramp-up

Chris Stonor27 October 2022

South Korea aims to be at the forefront of the green aviation movement with the goal of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) commercialisation in Seoul by 2025 and daily use of vertiports and drone hubs from 2030. Drone delivery remains a major and vital elemen...

Australia: Major Shopping Centre Developer Partners With Wing Drone Delivery

Chris Stonor25 October 2022

Australian-based shopping centre developer, Mirvac, has announced a partnership with Wing Drone Delivery to use its craft for urban retail centres, reports commercialrealestate.com. Australia is leading the way with ongoing Wing drone deliveries ...

Wing Drone Delivery Moving in on Ireland and “Bobby Healy’s Manor”

Chris Stonor13 October 2022

Surprising news from the Irish media outlet, independent.ie, today that U.S-based drone delivery company, Wing, is launching trials next month close to Dublin. Ireland’s drone industry is synonymous with Bobby Healy and Manna Aero, so this news must...

Australia: Swoop Aero drones to deliver “rapid medical testing for Queenslanders”

Chris Stonor12 October 2022

Australia continues to be a leading light for using drone delivery and the latest development is a proposed transporting of pathology samples from the Moreton Bay islands to Mater Pathology testing labs in Brisbane under a new collaboration between ...

Wingcopter Collaborate with Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

Chris Stonor4 October 2022

Wingcopter and Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences are trialing the potential of delivering consumer goods by drone to improve local supply in rural communities, reports a press release. The project called 'Drohnen-Lastenrad-Express-Beliefe...

Wing Drone Delivery Noise: Australians complain, “It’s gone too far!”

Chris Stonor28 September 2022

Some residents from Logan, Brisbane have had enough of Wing’s delivery drones flying over their homes, on occasions close to eighty times a day, reports Australian Channel 9 program, ‘A Current Affair’. “They are very very noisy,” says one resident....

Watch Video: Dronamics cargo deliveries to be “several times cheaper than existing air freight”

eVTOL Insights Editorial14 September 2022

Watch this Robin Riedel 8.30’ interview (link below) with co-founder and CEO of Dronamics cargo drone carrier, Svilen Rangelov. The company was founded eight years ago and is renowned for its Black Swan drone that can carry up to 350 kg in weight an...

Matternet M2 Delivery Drone: World’s first to be issued FAA Type Certification — design deemed safe for commercial use

Chris Stonor12 September 2022

The drone delivery industry reached a major and key regulatory milestone last week when Matternet announced its M2 had been issued with an FAA Type certification, allowing its quadcopter to be deployed for commercial use, reports a press release. Th...

Zipline and Jumia collaborate to pioneer drone delivery of thousands of products to millions of homes across Africa

Chris Stonor6 September 2022

Zipline, a leading drone delivery company and Jumia, a major African e-commerce platform, announced last week a partnership to deliver many thousands of different products by drone to people’s homes across Africa, reports a press release. A pilot pr...

Global Delivery Drone industry to reach USD18.77 billion by 2026

Chris Stonor30 August 2022

While evtolinsights.com focuses primarily on flying taxis, the drone delivery market, especially when used for transporting vital medical healthcare products, is also a significant and rapidly expanding industry. Last week, a report by the UK-bas...

“Manna is the only business I’ve started that keeps me awake at night, but it is also the most fun — its potential is phenomenal” (Bobby Healy, Manna Drone Delivery)

Chris Stonor24 August 2022

In the second of evtolinsights.com series of articles looking at eVTOL and drone developments in Ireland, we interview Bobby Healy, founder and CEO of drone delivery company, Manna. This is Healy’s fourth successful startup. Formed in late 2018, the...

Flock Fridays — Episode Five: The Silicon Valley of the drone industry?

Jason Pritchard19 March 2021

In this week's episode, James goes on a virtual trip to Norway and speaks to Håkon Kjerkreit from KVS Technologies. Håkon talks about the art of autonomy and how the country is becoming a centre of excellence for BVLOS flights. #FlockFridays is...