Who needs Santa when a drone can do all your mall shopping for you? Two Dallas shopping malls now offer drone delivery as a service. The news comes today out of Wing, which will run drone deliveries out of two...
London’s skyline is known for icons like Big Ben and the London Eye, but there’s a new addition to its airspace that’s turning heads. It’s a medical drone delivery service transporting urgent blood samples across the city. The collaboration between...
Matternet was one of the early names in the drone delivery space. Initially, it promoted its drones in healthcare logistics, something we’ve see other companies like Zipline and Wing (two of the largest drone delivery companies out there) do too....
It’s one thing if it’s a cool party trick, but what about whether it’s actually useful? A new 2024 study digs into public perception around drone delivery, and in particular how valuable people think it really is. The results might...
It’s been a rough year for DroneUp. In August 2024, news came out that DroneUp would end its drone delivery partnership with Walmart in three states: Arizona, Florida and Utah. With that, DroneUp job cuts occurred. The company laid off...
Not everything is rosy in the land of drone delivery. DroneUp, which is a U.S.-based drone delivery service backed by retail giant Walmart, announced significant layoffs and operational cutbacks. The DroneUp layoffs comes as the company faces challenges in financial...
The company perhaps most famous for delivering sandwiches from Jersey Mike’s and pizza from Little Caesars just crossed a milestone. Flytrex, which is a drone delivery company based in the U.S., just made its 100,000th drone delivery. The order at...
After more than five years of largely successful drone operations in the state of Queensland, Australia, Wing’s drone delivery operations are finally expanding to a different Australian state. Wing, the drone delivery arm affiliated with Google, announced in July 2024...
Amazon is working on launching a drone delivery service in the West Valley Phoenix Metro Area. And this week, new details have emerged as to what exactly this Arizona Amazon drone delivery service will entail. On July 10, the Federal...
Here’s yet another sign that Walmart is increasingly committed to drone delivery. While Walmart has been offering drone delivery as a service at a handful of its stores (primarily in Texas), it wasn’t always the most intuitive for customers. A...