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Blood deliveries by drone in Palo Alto

Avatar for Haye Kesteloo Dec 29 2017 - 10:29 am PT
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Blood delivered by drone may soon be a reality in Palo Alto, California as the Palo Alto and Stanford Blood Center is making a pitch to the Federal Aviation Administration. Blood-carrying drones may start making their first deliveries early 2018.

For this project, the city has partnered with Stanford Blood Center and drone manufacturer Matternet on a proposal to the Federal Aviation Administration. If the name Matternet sounds familiar, that would be correct. That is the same company that is currently testing drone deliveries with Mercedes-Benz in Zurich, Switzerland.

Under the FAA pilot program, the proposal is seeking an “approved flight path” between the Stanford Blood Center and Stanford Hospital, west of Junipero Serra Boulevard.


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Elroy Air raises $4.6 million for cargo delivery drone

Avatar for Haye Kesteloo Dec 29 2017 - 9:01 am PT
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Elroy Air, a San Francisco, California-based cargo drone start-up company announced that is has raised $4.6 million in funding. The cargo drones, Elroy Air is planning to produce, will be capable of transporting up to 150 pounds of cargo for up to 300 miles. Most of the funding came from Levitate Capital, Homebrew, Shasta Ventures, and Lemnos, according to Quartz.


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Californian couple delivered drugs by drone according to police

Avatar for Haye Kesteloo Dec 28 2017 - 5:10 am PT
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On Tuesday, a Southern California man and woman got busted by the police for delivering drugs by drone to their customers in a nearby parking lot. The couple, Benjamin Paul Baldassarre, 39, and Ashley Lauren Carroll, 31, lived with a 9-year-old girl in their drug littered home. They were charged with possession of controlled substances for sale, possession of drug paraphernalia and child endangerment, City News Service reported.


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Bell Helicopter shows off a delivery drone

Avatar for Haye Kesteloo Dec 8 2017 - 10:20 am PT
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Bell Helicopter showcases a delivery drone that one day may well bring you your Amazon orders. The Fort Worth-based aviation company is aggressively moving into the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) space and introduced this week the all-electric APT, short for Automatic Pod Transport. A drone that could be used for military purposes or retailers like Amazon.


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Mercedes-Benz successfully completes over 100 drone deliveries and plans more

Avatar for Haye Kesteloo Nov 28 2017 - 10:10 am PT
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Mercedes-Benz recently completed more than 100 successful drone deliveries in Zurich, Switzerland. The unmanned aircraft delivered everyday items such as ground coffee and cellphones to Mercedes-Benz vans strategically located in the city. They were able to achieve a perfect safety record and more drone deliveries are planned for next year.


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Drone deliveries successfully tested in Northern Canada

Avatar for Haye Kesteloo Nov 20 2017 - 9:29 am PT
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Drone deliveries successfully tested in Northern Canada

Transport Canada granted permission to the company Drone Delivery Canada to start testing drone deliveries in the Northern Canadian Communities of Moose Factory and Moosonee, Ontario. Toronto based Drone Delivery Canada made its first successful flights earlier this month in a partnership with Moose Cree First Nation. The partnership aims to establish a drone delivery service that would bring food, medical supplies and other necessities to the island of Moose Factory in the Moose River.


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Drone delivering phones and drugs crashes inside Buckeye prison yard

Avatar for Haye Kesteloo Nov 17 2017 - 6:10 am PT
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AZ Central reported that a drone attempting to deliver phones and drugs to inmates in the Buckeye prison in Arizona crashed in a yard only accessible to corrections officers. The Arizona Department of Corrections said on Thursday, that they are investigating the incident to determine who was behind the attempted contraband delivery by drone. According to corrections spokesman Andrew Wilder, this is the first known drone incident at an Arizona state prison. We have seen similarly attempted drone deliveries in Michigan, Louisiana, and Texas but also abroad in Australia, and Great Britain.


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Burritos delivered by drone – Alphabet’s Project Wing in South Eastern Australia

Avatar for Haye Kesteloo Oct 17 2017 - 10:51 am PT
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Burrito's delivered by drone - Alphabet’s Project Wing in South Eastern Australia

It has been a little quiet around Alphabet’s Project Wing, but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been any progress. Over the last few years, Project Wing has made thousands of test flights and now they are ready to start making deliveries. The test market is Queanbeyan, South Eastern Australia, where two merchants have signed up for Project Wing. Guzman y Gomez, a Mexican food chain, and Chemist Warehouse, a chain of pharmacies. These companies will receive orders from test consumers, who’ve purchased items using the Project Wing app on their smartphones. Project Wing’s drones will then fly out and make the deliveries. The first burrito delivered by drone in Australia is now a fact. Believe it or not, this actually happened before when Google delivered Chipotle Burritos via drones to Virginia Tech college students in Blacksburg.


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