Drone operations

The drone delivery industry is heating up in this hotly contested market as yet another company, Flyby Robotics, flexes its muscles after securing USD4 million in seed funding, reports a press release. The round was led by MaC Venture Capital, wi...

Some Michigan residents will be able to have specialty medications and healthcare products delivered by drones next year, reports eu.detroitnews.com. The Ann Arbor-based health system is partnering with drone delivery company, Zipline, to carry out ...

Zipline has unveiled its NextGen Autonomous Drone Platform that, the company claims, “provides quiet, fast and precise delivery directly to homes in cities and suburbs.” Zipline also says the platform “is practically silent (designed to sound like w...

Wing drone delivery is adding complex route management and self-loading capability for its drone delivery fleet that will make it "capable of handling tens of millions of deliveries for millions of consumers by mid 2024", says CEO Adam Woodwort...

Skyports announced at the recent Busan Drone Event, a collaboration with South Korean drone company, Marine Drone Tech (MDT), reports a press release. Named Skyports Drone Services Korea, this partnership is to deliver bespoke drone solutions. Local...

Blueflite announced this week a sales option from Spright, a leading U.S drone services provider, of 40 of its medical delivery drones, reports a press release. An initial four craft will be delivered over the coming months. Spright aims to integ...

Dutch Air Traffic Control LVNL, Dutch Automobile Association ANWB, and Landline and Mobile Telecommunications company KPN, have joined forces to work towards a common goal – to enable drones and manned aircraft to fly safely through the skies, repor...

Dronamics, “the world’s first cargo drone with a licence to operate in Europe," recently announced it had raised USD40 million in pre-Series A funding from venture capital funds and angel investors across 12 countries, as the company approaches its ...

Telefónica announced today it has accomplished a first use case in Spain, based on 5G-connection for a successful drone delivery of a package, reports a press release. The main objective was to evaluate how a 5G network “can facilitate the developme...

Australia-based Swoop Aero recently announced it has obtained approval to operate beyond Visual Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) in New Zealand, as it prepares to launch the country’s first Integrated drone logistics network in partnership with Te Whatu Ora He...

India-based drone startup, Garuda Aerospace, recently raised USD22 million in a Series A Funding Round led by venture capital firm SphitiCap, reports a press release. The company has invested USD12 million with the rest coming from a variety of glob...

The major U.S retailer, Walmart, says it is looking to ramp up its drone delivery service during 2023 by using multiple 5G carriers, reports dronexl.com, after successfully completing more than 6,000 deliveries last year. At present, Walmart is c...

Recently, Sweden-Based Everdrone was given the go-ahead by officials from the region of Västra Götaland to extend its “First on Scene Solutions” to rapidly deliver life-saving Automated External Defibrillators (AED) for cardiac victims, reports a pr...