In response to COVID-19, Flytrex, a drone technology company, has partnered with EASE Drones to launch its drone delivery service directly to backyards in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The initiative will provide necessities such as food, medicine and other essential goods via drone to selected households observing social distancing recommendations. The deliveries will be made in
Delivery company, Yodel, has integrated barcode scanning software from Scandit, an enterprise technology platform for mobile computer vision and augmented reality (AR), into its newly developed driver and courier app. Yodel delivers millions of parcels every week across the UK. Yodel has a transformation programme to change the hand-held terminals (HHTs) and replace them
Roughly one month after receiving the United States government’s first full Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Part 135 Standard certification, which is required to operate a drone airline, Atlanta-based transportation and logistics bellwether UPS said today that, in a partnership with CVS Health Corporation, a subsidiary of CVS Pharmacy, it has competed the first revenue-generating drone
Researchers at MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics worked with a freight services company that specializes in last-mile deliveries of large parcels to address this challenge. Source link
Routine drone deliveries of medication, snacks and other small items from a drugstore began in a small Virginia town on Friday. Alphabet Inc. offshoot Wing, which just received an expanded certification to act as a small air carrier, is starting the nation’s inaugural delivery service via a small civilian aircraft with partners Walgreens Boots Alliance