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Roughly a month after Amazon Prime Air made its first deliveries in California and Texas, it’d served fewer than 10 households — and it’s already laid off more than half the employees at those locations. That’s according to a pair of new reports at The Information and Business
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Skyports Drone Services, and electric, autonomous aircraft manufacturer, Pyka, have agreed on a partnership for heavy payload drone logistics. The collaboration will leverage Skyports Drone Services’ extensive operational experience and Pyka’s best-in-class heavy payload aircraft to provide game-changing drone delivery services. The partnership will see Skyports
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Telecommunications company KDDI, map-maker Zenrin and others in Japan launched a drone delivery service using U.S. aerospace company SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet access service in Chichibu, a mountainous city in Saitama Prefecture. By connecting a drone to the Starlink service that provides a stable communication environment even
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The 'island villages' of Saarikylät to the southeast of the city of Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region contain seven villages located on different islands — and they are a paper deliverer's worst nightmare. This has prompted a local logistics company to come up with a novel solution
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Elroy Air, the company developing an end-to-end autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial cargo system, has signed an agreement with LCI, a leading aviation company and a subsidiary of Libra Group for commitments to purchase up to 40 of the company’s Chaparral vertical take-off
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Earlier this month, Amazon confirmed plans to lay off around 18,000 workers. The move has hit certain divisions hard, including Comixology and Prime Air. The latter's drone delivery program was just starting to gain traction after commencing deliveries in test markets and unveiling a new model, but
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Swiss drone startup Jedsy has embarked on a pilot project to deliver laboratory samples for the Dr. Risch lab group in Switzerland using its Glider unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The drone is unique in that it is capable of vertically docking outside of upper-story windows and balconies, much like
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Leonardo has completed the first phase of its "Sumeri Moderni" drone-based-delivery tests in Turin, focusing on “middle mile delivery”. In logistics, “middle mile” refers to a product or parcel’s journey from the distribution centre to the individual retail store, usually involving moving heavy batches of
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Seven-Eleven Japan and ANA Holdings lead a group that has been holding tests since late November in Hinode a sparsely populated area in western Tokyo. The drone is about 2 meters long, and can carry goods up to 5 kilograms. The tests will take place from November 29-December
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SpiceJet plans to introduce SpiceXpress drone delivery service for delivering medical and essential supplies in remote areas. The airline, which had received formal approval from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to conduct drone trials in May 2020, wants to expand its logistics platform by building a seamless supply
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After nearly a year of trial operation in Shenzhen, Meituan UAV takeaway will soon be launched in Shanghai, and it is currently in the internal test phase. On November 28, Dragon TV showed an example in a report. When a user logged into the Meituan app, he found that a
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Melbourne-based drone logistics company Swoop Aero has obtained BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line Of Sight) approval for medical logistics operations in Queensland. The approval from Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) allows Swoop Aero to operate in a fully integrated airspace with an aerodrome based hub at the local