Drone technology

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...

MightyFly, a U.S based cargo drone delivery company founded in 2019, announced today it has received an FAA Certificate of Authorisation, reports a press release. This allows trialing of its long-range, last-mile and middle-mile cargo drone. This...

The highly-respected research company, McKinsey, asked four of its top air mobility analysts, led by Robin Riedel, Head of the Disruptive Aerospace sector, to analyse the future of drone delivery and its importance for last mile delivery. The result...

Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) has announced that its six-month “Care by Air Project” trial, in collaboration with DSV and Halton Healthcare, has now commercially started, reports stattimes.com. First revealed last November, DDC is using its Sparrow dr...

Ever since Amazon first announced the concept of drone delivery back in 2013, company promises have been consistently broken, where “Cry Wolf” is a regular theme. For example, in 2019 Amazon even stated it would begin drone deliveries “within months...

Walmart announced last week its collaboration with DroneUp drone delivery service has expanded further in to the U.S States of Arizona, Florida and Texas, reports a press release. The launch in these three new States fits into the retailer's wider p...

Zipline, the leading global drone delivery company, announced last week a new partnership with the Rwanda Government that aims to complete nearly 2 million instant deliveries and fly more than 200 million autonomous kilometres in the country by 2029...

Aerit First, a Sweden-basec drone delivery company, announced last week a BVLOS delivery trial for groceries and general products to selected Swedish homes, reports a press release. The trial covered households across a 38 square mile area surroundi...

Wing is really excited about drone delivery in Ireland. Not only does it offer the company a foot in the European door for 2023, but the Irish people show a real appetite for this futuristic business, especially after the recent trial successes of I...