Tag: drone delivery

April 4, 2022

The Chaparral could eventually fulfill a specific need in FedEx’s network that its current fleet of aircraft and vehicles can’t efficiently provide today, said Joe Stephens, FedEx Express senior vice president of global planning, engineering and technology. Using VTOL aircraft […]

November 23, 2021

Walmart has partnered with drone-maker Zipline to launch a drone delivery service for residents in Northwest Arkansas. The program is the first commercial drone delivery launched by Walmart and its biggest investment in the technology to date, having trialled it […]

October 5, 2021

Daniel Silva remembers being an intern at Amazon in the summer of 2014, months after founder Jeff Bezos unveiled the company’s plans for drone delivery service via Amazon Prime Air. “At the time, it seemed like we were going to […]

August 20, 2021

Drone delivery units in the US will have jumped 54 per cent by the end of the 2021, but are set to grow exponentially over the next two years. According to data from Insider Intelligence, the US will have 24,000 […]

July 1, 2021

Zipline, the world’s biggest drone delivery company operating at large-scale, has doubled in valuation to $2.75 billion. The US-based drone operator was founded in 2014 and has found great success in Africa, completing over 150,000 missions in the last five […]

June 9, 2020

In recent years, articles on drones have been filled with complaints about their noise, spying capacity and threat to planes. In the last few months, they’ve been hailed as heroes amid the pandemic. In China and many European countries, drones […]

April 30, 2020

UPS completed its first drone delivery with CVS in November 2019 in North Carolina. Since then, as part of the carrier’s coronavirus response effort, it has been testing the viability of drones to complete smaller-scale deliveries to medical sites or […]

February 13, 2020

JD.com has promised to hire more than 20,000 people who are out of work due to the coronavirus while it begins making drone deliveries to cut off locations. The Chinese ecommerce giant is making major moves to help “minimize the […]

January 23, 2020

Retail drone deliveries are facing a major setback in the US as key legislation enabling companies to deliver parcels is opposed by powerful groups. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed new rules which would force all drones to be […]

November 7, 2019

UPS has officially made its first dollar delivering prescription drugs to CVS customers’ doorsteps via commercial drones. UPS’ subsidiary UPS Flight Forward (UPSFF) and CVS Pharmacy completed their first “revenue-generating” drone delivery of a medical prescription from a CVS pharmacy […]

August 12, 2019

Drones, for the last few years, have been viewed as the future of last-mile delivery for a variety of organizations ranging from third party logistics to hospitals. These flying couriers could also make it easier to provide same-day delivery in […]

April 14, 2017

Drone delivery continues to draw great interest from retailers, logistics companies and drone manufacturers — yet the average consumer is years away from getting burritos, books or bath towels delivered by drones on a regular basis. The concept of drone […]

March 28, 2017

Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service made its first delivery in the United States last week at the company’s invite-only conference, MARS, The Verge reported recently. The autonomous drone delivered sunscreen, landing on a target in the middle of the […]