Tag: drones

February 15, 2017

If you haven’t yet been to Dubai, this summer might be a good time to visit. Starting this July, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates will see people traveling across its skies in single-passenger drones. That’s according to […]

January 4, 2017

Our world is already starting to look like the scenarios imagined by science-fiction writers. Google just announced that the company is spinning off a separate self-driving car entity called Waymo, meanwhile Amazon is a robotics powerhouse, experimenting with drone-based delivery […]

August 5, 2016

Zipline, a San Francisco-based robotics company, is expanding its medical supply and blood delivery drone program it started last month in Rwanda to rural, hard-to-reach communities in Maryland, Nevada and Washington state, the company announced this week. Zipline, which was founded in 2011 by […]

June 6, 2016

The market for drone business services is worth more than $126 billion, according to a recent PwC report. Another report, which separates drones by type and use, predicts the market will reach $5.59 billion by 2020, a 32.22 percent increase […]

November 17, 2015

Imagine you’re relaxing on a sunny beach when along comes an annoying buzz that rises above the sound of your radio. It could be a banner plane or a jet-ski — or it could be an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), […]

November 3, 2015

Google has unveiled plans to get into the delivery-by-drone business by 2017. These plans were detailed during an air traffic control conference in Washington earlier today by project leader, David Vos. The project, known as Project Wing and first rumored […]

September 21, 2015

The Finnish postal service Posti Group had run some tests with drones for parcel delivery. At the beginning of this month, the postal company let drones fly while transporting parcels between mainland Helsinki and Suomenlinna, an island fortress about five […]

July 29, 2015

The online retailer envisions a highly automated system, tied to a central computer, directing a delivery fleet. (Bloomberg)—The first wave of long-range commercial drones should be allowed to operate in a narrow, low-altitude band and must agree to be tracked, […]

April 8, 2015

Two-thirds expect to receive a delivery by drone within five years, and 80% would pay for the service, a Walker Sands study finds. More U.S. consumers shop more frequently online and they tend to trust Amazon.com Inc. more than other […]