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Amazon.com Inc.’s has shifted staff working on its Paris-based drone research and development center to new projects, marking another set-back in the company’s delivery project. The dozen-strong team, which previously focused on drone navigation, were reassigned to new roles in Amazon from September 2020
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Near Earth Autonomy and L3Harris Technologies have successfully demonstrated an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) capable of autonomously delivering life-saving blood and other medical supplies hundreds of miles from operational bases to medics in the field. Whole blood is the ideal fluid for hemorrhagic shock treatment in tactical combat care.
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PABLO AIR, a company specializing in drone logistics solutions and services and a member of Born2Global Centre, is making steady steps forward into the Southeast Asia's drone delivery market. PABLO AIR recently signed an IBN partnership contract with Malaysia's National Technology and Innovation Sandbox (NTIS) for
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Drone Delivery Canada Corp. has announced that it has opened a new Commercialization Centre to augment its main facility and test range. The Commercialization Centre is on approximately 100 acres west of the Company’s main office and will be operational in November. DDC will maintain a permanent facility there
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Draganfly Inc. has announced that it has successfully completed over 300 daytime drone delivery test flights with EMS personnel in Texas. Draganfly is currently in Phase 1 of its agreement with Coldchain Technology Services, LLC. In Spring Branch, Texas, the Company is working with emergency crews on the development and
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Reliable Robotics, a supplier of automated aircraft systems, has announced a $100 million Series C funding round led by Coatue Management. Coatue joins past investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Eclipse Ventures, Teamworthy Ventures and Pathbreaker Ventures to bring total fundraising over $133 million. With its innovative airframe independent technology, Reliable’s
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Aerit has just completed Sweden’s first commercial beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) food delivery in collaboration with Region Halland using its autonomous drone the Nimbi. The delivery flight began at Hygge, a local cafe near Tylösand beach, where a freshly made galette was winched into the Nimbi waiting
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ANRA Technologies, a supplier of integrated airspace, mission management and delivery systems for uncrewed aircraft, has announced its engagement in live drone flights over Japan, showcasing its airspace management and drone delivery software platforms as part of a project led by NEDO (National Institute of New Energy and Industrial Technology
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Mesa Air Group, Inc. has signed an agreement with aerospace technology company Flirtey to order 4 delivery drones, with an option to order an additional 500 aircraft. The agreement marks Mesa becoming the first scheduled airline to launch drone delivery in the U.S. Mesa and Flirtey are initially focusing
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Unither Bioelectronics has set its sights on transforming the way we think of transplantable organ transportation, either donor organs or manufactured organs. In September 2021, in a proof-of-concept flight, the company transferred donor lungs for transplant between two hospitals using its proprietary aerial drone organ transportation technologies. The
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DHL, a global international express service provider, DHL Express, and Pen Aviation, an ecosystem provider for Unmanned Automated Solutions (UAS), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to commercialise time-critical goods deliveries with unmanned aerial vehicles, leveraging PEN UAS-based solutions. This initiative is in partnership with Raya Airways
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Drone Delivery Canada Corp. has announced that effective October 18th, 2021, its University of British Columbia drone delivery solution at the Stellat’en First Nation for UBC’s ‘Remote Communities Drone Transportation Initiative’ program is commercially operational. The term of the project is 12 months. The project enables defined-route