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DJI Completes World’s First Drone Delivery Tests on Mount Everest

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DJI has teamed up with Nepalese drone service company Airlift, video production company 8KRAW, and Nepalese certified mountain guide Mingma Gyalje Sherpa, to fly the world’s first successful delivery drone trials on Mount Everest (Mount Qomolangma). Completed in April, this historic milestone in aviation highlights the impressive capabilities of DJI FlyCart 30, which can carry […]

Amazon Prime Air Drones Get FAA BVLOS Approval to Expand Deliveries in Texas

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The approval will allow Prime Air to further expand drone deliveries and lays the foundation to safely scale operations to more locations in the U.S. We’re excited to share that the FAA has given Prime Air additional permissions that allow us to operate our drones beyond visual line of sight, enabling us to now serve […]

Zipline to Advance Care with Mayo Clinic in Florida and Minnesota

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Zipline announced that its Platform 2 (P2) service will integrate into Mayo Clinic’s campuses in Jacksonville, Florida and Rochester, Minnesota. Mayo Clinic will use Zipline’s zero-emission, autonomous drones to quickly make deliveries directly to patients’ homes as part of its advanced hospital-at-home program. Mayo Clinic is a world-leader in Advanced Care at Home, an innovative […]

Aerit Announces Bankruptcy and Upcoming Sale of Assets

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Aerit, a Swedish company in the field of drone technology for last mile deliveries, including food, parcels, medicines, and other goods, has announced that it has filed for bankruptcy. Nils Åberg, Advokatfirman Carler, has been appointed administrator. The company, which has developed innovative proprietary drone delivery hardware and software, has been unable to secure the […]

Wing to Carry Blood Samples between London Hospitals

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The UK’s National Health Service (NHS)is to use Wing’s autonomous drones to fly blood samples between London hospitals in an effort to speed up medical tests. Wing, the drone operator owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, has been chosen to deliver high-priority samples between Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals in south London. The trial could […]

Delivery Drones are Getting Bigger — Much Bigger

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Next-gen aviation startup MightyFly says it’s the first company developing a large, autonomous electric vehicle takeoff and landing (eVTOL) cargo drone that’s been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration for a flight corridor. Why it matters: It’s a big milestone for the emerging company — and for the drone delivery world more broadly. Driving the […]

Nepal to use Drones to Transport Garbage from Mount Everest

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The Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality, which hosts the 8,848.86 metre-tall Everest, is piloting heavy lifter drones that will bring back garbage from the mighty mountain. Though officials say that cargo drones will fly on Everest to bring garbage, its success, however, may affect the livelihood of high altitude support staff who navigate the dangerous […]

BMT Redefines Autonomous Payload Delivery

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In a major development for the BMT SPARO project, the British Army’s Futures Directorate has provided funding to build, supply and demonstrate the latest prototype for UK medics who took part in Project CONVERGENCE, the premier US Army experimentation exercise in March. BMT SPARO is a small, suspended air-ground payload transfer device demonstrating a globally […]

Zipline Makes 1,000,000 Commercial Autonomous Drone Deliveries

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Zipline, the world’s largest autonomous delivery system, has just become the first company in history to complete one million commercial drone deliveries to customers. If Zipline’s autonomous software was a human pilot, it would have already spent more than 120 years flying in the air. Zipline’s zero-emission autonomous drones have now flown more than 70 […]