Amazon ends California drone delivery, shifts focus to Arizona
Amazon is calling it quits on Prime Air services in one of the two cities where they launched their drone…
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Amazon’s drone delivery unit loses key FAA interlocutor: report
Efforts by Amazon to fulfill founder Jeff Bezo’s decade old vision of swiftly dispatching customer orders with a fleet of speedy, efficient delivery…
Amazon’s Prime Air may begin delivering packages by drone sooner than you think
Amazon Prime Air and other companies may begin delivering packages by drone as soon as this summer, according to federal regulators and industry officials. Since late last year, the White House has started to put more pressure on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to work with companies to make delivering packages by drone a reality. At the FAA UAS Symposium last week it became clear that drone deliveries may be here sooner than we think as federal officials promised drone proponents: “We’ll help you get there.”
Medical supplies and blood deliveries could open up the skies for routine drone deliveries
One of the best examples of drone deliveries must be Zipline’s blood and medical supply delivery system in Rwanda. The San Francisco-based company has successfully used drones to fly “more than 187,500 miles, delivering 7,000 units of blood over 7,500 flights” since they launched their service in Africa. Could medical cargo, where to benefit from using a drone to deliver the supplies seems most obvious, open up the skies for routine drone deliveries?
Drone deliveries may become a reality in the UK by 2019
The UK’s National Air Traffic Control Service (NATS) is planning to scrap the rule that prevents drone pilots to fly their unmanned aerial vehicles beyond line-of-sight. This would open up the opportunity for companies like Amazon to start making deliveries by drone to customers as early as 2019.
FAA proposes to certify specific drones for package deliveries
On Monday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposed new safety standards for specific drones for package deliveries in the Federal…
Amazon’s French drone delivery R&D center has been disbanded: report
In May 2017, Amazon announced the opening of a new Prime Air Development Center in Clichy, France, to boost research…
DroneUp layoffs accompany pivot to drone delivery focus
Though clearly still in the early stages of their development and growth, rapidly scaling drone delivery services made the ascending activity seems…
UAS IPP: Amazon, DJI are out. Airbus, Alphabet (Google), Apple, AT&T, Microsoft, Fedex, Uber and others are in.
Yesterday the U.S. Department of Transportation announced the 10 pilot programmes that have been approved under President Trump’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Program (UAS IPP) in an effort to bring the country up to speed when it comes to drone experimentation. Yesterday we published the list of awardees and today we are reporting on the companies that made the list such as Airbus, Alphabet (Google), Apple, AT&T, Microsoft, FedEx, Uber, and others. As well as the ones that did not make the list, most notably Amazon and DJI.
