Category: dronedelivery

Walmart’s latest drone trial delivers at-home COVID-19 tests

Post author By Randall
Post date September 22, 2020
Categories In coronavirus, covid-19, drone, drone deliveries, drone delivery, dronedeliveries, dronedelivery, gear, News, Tech, test, walmart

[ad_1] Walmart is starting to deliver at-home COVID-19 tests by drone. A trial got underway in North Las Vegas today and the deliveries will expand to Cheektowaga, New York early next month. It’s delivering the kits to qualifying patients who live within a mile of certain Walmart Supercenters in both locales. Patients will self-administer a […]

Alphabet’s Wing starts drone deliveries to US homes

Post author By Randall
Post date October 18, 2019
Categories In alphabet, drone, drone delivery, dronedelivery, Drones, Google, Tech, tomorrow, Transportation, virginia, wing

[ad_1] The Federal Aviation Administration has granted Wing an expanded Air Carrier Certificate. It has permission to “allow multiple pilots to oversee multiple unmanned aircraft making commercial deliveries simultaneously to the general public.” UPS also received FAA certification for commercial deliveries this month, but it will stick to hospitals and medical campuses for now. Folks […]

UPS delivery drones are on the way after FAA certification

Post author By Randall
Post date October 1, 2019
Categories In Delivery, drone, drone delivery, dronedelivery, faa, Federal Aviation Administration, federalaviationadministration, Tech, tomorrow, Transportation, ups

[ad_1] Flight Forward is the first company to claim the Part 135 Standard certification, and it’ll be able to operate an unlimited number of drones. The machines and their payloads can weigh more than 55 pounds and UPS can fly its drones at night. Earlier this year, under the Transportation Department’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration […]