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A British entrepreneur developing the UK's first autonomous passenger drone says he'll begin test flights with people on board as early as this year. Martin Warner's start-up, Autonomous Flight, has been building the Y6S - a battery-powered pilotless flying vehicle - to give our
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The Dutch engineer behind the idea for circular runways at airports has revealed plans to build a test runway for unmanned delivery drones. Henk Hesselink is collaborating with Valkenburg airport, a disused naval base near The Hague, which has ambitions to become a drone innovation centre. His design for circular
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Amazon's latest patent, called 'Countermeasure for Threats to an Uncrewed Autonomous Vehicle', was filed on November 17, 2014 and was published last week. If a drone is stuck with a rock, gun or even an arrow, the system will deploy 'a protective device such as
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Once a week the drone of DPDgroup connects Saint-Maximin-La-Sainte-Baume to Pourrières, in the Var. This line delivers an isolated business incubator that brings together a dozen start-ups in the field of technology. From now on, their parcels delivered by Chronopost and DPD France will be
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The Amazon is home to thousands of local indigenous communities spread across very remote areas. As a result, these sparsely populated communities rarely have reliable access to essential medicines and public health services. For example, local doctors in the region report an average of 45 snakebites per month and no
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The French General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC) has authorized DPDgroup, an international express subsidiary of Groupe La Poste, to deliver parcels by drone on a regular commercial line in the Var. After the testing phase, we now undertake the experimental phase on this 15 km line in the Var.
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Amazon said it has delivered its first Prime Air order. Last week, one of the company's drones dropped off an Amazon Fire TV and bag of popcorn in the backyard of a customer near Cambridge, England -- 13 minutes after the customer ordered it online. Jeff Bezos, Amazon'
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With all the good things that can come from the use of drones, there is always someone out there who will use them for bad intentions too. Recent reports from Colombia explain how drug barons are now employing the use of drones to deliver their goods and do their dirty
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Flirtey and Domino's Pizza Enterprises Ltd (Domino's) began autonomous delivery of pizzas from Domino's stores to select customer homes on November 15 The deliveries were conducted in New Zealand as part of Flirtey and Domino's Pizza Enterprises ongoing drone delivery testing. Currently
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DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung, Deutsche Telekom as well as Deutsche Post DHL Group and RWTH Aachen University are to launch a joint research project on drones. At the DFS technology conference, The Drone Challenge, held in Langen, Germany, DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung, Deutsche Telekom and DHL Parcel will sign an agreement to
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Nestled in the heart of Camridge's historic city centre, this is Amazon’s secret lab where it is building and testing drones that aim to deliver packages to customer’s homes within just 30 minutes. The secret workshop is nestled in the heart of Cambridge city centre – unbeknownst
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What is being hailed as the world's first commercial regular drone delivery service is beginning drop-offs in Rwanda. The operation uses fixed-wing drones that automatically fly to destinations in the central African nation. They release small packages attached to parachutes without needing to land at the