drones

After years of regulatory issues, it seems the vision of drones filling the skies delivering products in 30 minutes or less may finally be realized, as a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is rolling out its commercial drone delivery service. What Happened?...

A quiet night at home in Ohio was disturbed this week when a drone strapped with weed, tobacco and cell phones crashed into a house in Mansfield, south of Cleveland, and scared the heck out of its occupants. According to the Richland County Sheriff's office, a 17-year-old...

So far in the Drone Disruptors series, we've taken a look at two distinctly different players in the drone delivery space. Israel-based Flytrex hopes to become the drone of the U.S. suburbs, flying over residential neighborhoods and airdropping cups of coffee to your backyard. Then there's Volansi...

Launched in 2016, Drone Racing League features pilots who maneuver professional drones through courses at speeds of 90 mph or more. The sport’s focus on technology and reaching a younger audience could get a boost with a cryptocurrency-related partnership announced this week. About Drone...

A2Z Drone Delivery is already seeing success with its Rapid Delivery System (RDS1) tether drop system, and now it is adding a dual-drop commercial drone to complete the package. The company on Wednesday announced the commercial launch of the RDSX for drone delivery applications. The RDSX was...

Elroy Air's autonomous, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) cargo aircraft, the Chaparral, has caught the attention of investors, including Lockheed Martin. That company's venture capital arm and others were involved in Elroy Air's Series A raise announced on Wednesday. The company reported it had...

Drone delivery bulls took a hit after news of Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) floundering U.K. drone operations broke on Tuesday, but plenty of smaller players are still working to bring drones to U.S. cities. The latest locale? Phoenix. South Korea-based Pablo Air announced Wednesday the expansion of its...

Comments closed this week on a notice of proposed rulemaking put forth by the National Transportation Safety Board, the government agency responsible for investigating transportation accidents, on the definition of drones and how that definition should be used to trigger accident investigations....

The underlying technologies that are fueling the urban air mobility (UAM) sector are still in their infancy in many cases, but they will be the base upon which the future movement of people and goods depend. The ability of UAM providers to safely operate is also dependent on aircraft navigation...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) on Wednesday announced that it has secured a patent for drone technology that can be paired directly with delivery vans. The system, if it comes to fruition, could enable Amazon to optimize its last-mile delivery services by outsourcing much of the work to its automated drones...

Maybe not today, and not likely tomorrow, but one day soon, many Americans will receive their first e-commerce delivery by drone. For residents in select areas of the country – North Carolina, Arkansas and Ohio among others – drones are already making deliveries to the home. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN...

Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) drone-delivery venture, Wing, is releasing free software for U.S. drone users to get permission to fly near sensitive areas like airports, Bloomberg reported. Wing’s OpenSky application will be available on Google Play and ...

After months of testing drone delivery to designated pickup locations, Flytrex is now able to take the next step — delivering to the customer's yard. The Israeli-based company announced Tuesday that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had approved its request to fly drones over people,...

Less than a month after Wingcopter introduced the world's first triple-drop capable drone delivery system, San Francisco-area Skycart has gone a step further, announcing a drone capable of making four deliveries in a single flight. The Skycart Nimbus can deliver by line, parachute or ground...

Ondas Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ONDS) has reached agreement to acquire American Robotics, the first drone company to receive Federal Aviation Authority beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) approval. Ondas will pay approximately $70.6 million in a combination of cash and equity securities for American...