Engineering
A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has found that drones carrying parcels use much less energy per parcel than diesel delivery trucks. In their paper published in the journal Patterns, the group described ...
Engineering
Many parcel delivery drones of the future are expected to handle packages weighing five pounds or less, a restriction that would allow small, standardized UAVs to handle a large percentage of the deliveries now done by ground ...
Mar 23, 2021
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Engineering
Alphabet (Google) subsidiary Wing has become the first company in the United States to deliver packages by drone.
Oct 19, 2019
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Engineering
A drone delivery is great—on a perfect, sunny day. But what about when it's windy? Most drones are not able to withstand wind because of their fixed-arm design.
Apr 16, 2019
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Hi Tech & Innovation
A Google-linked firm will start delivering takeaways and other small items to Canberra residents after the company received approval from aviation watchdogs in Australia on Tuesday.
Apr 9, 2019
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Hi Tech & Innovation
A delivery drone company that has helped Africans in dire need of emergency blood supplies is widening its vision. The California-based company is Zipline and its autonomous planes are making news closer to its home in the ...
Energy & Green Tech
By getting your next package delivered by drone, you could be saving energy, but only if companies deploy drones sensibly.
Feb 14, 2018
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Automotive
With Amazon aiming to make 10,000 deliveries with drones in Europe this year and Walmart planning to expand its drone delivery services to an additional 60,000 homes this year in the states, companies are investing more research ...
Nov 10, 2023
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Business
Amazon's latest plan to use drones to deliver packages in the UK by the end of 2024 is essentially a relaunch. It was ten years ago that the company's founder Jeff Bezos first announced it would fly individual packages through ...
Oct 25, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Amazon.com Inc. laid out plans to expand its still-experimental drone delivery effort, announcing the start of sending prescription medication by air and promising to start flights in Britain and Italy by late 2024.
Oct 19, 2023
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