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Chronicling the Evolution of the Autonomous Supply Chain One Delivery Drone at a TimeHave you ever wondered…
What are delivery drones?
How much weight can delivery drones carry?
How do commercial delivery drone services work?
What is the future of delivery drone technology?
If you have ever asked yourself these questions, then you have definitely come to the right place…
Bipedal Package Delivery Drones?
Bipedal Package Delivery Drones? 0 Comments Written by Ric January 12, 2020 Image Source: Agility Robotics Ford recently announced they bought the first two units of Agility Robotics’ “Digit”, a commercially available bipedal package delivery robot that can...
Irish Post Delivery Drone?
Irish postal delivery drone delivers trinket from mainland to island…
Chinese Supermarket Delivery Drone?
Yonghui Supermarkets’ delivery drones have safely completed 600 flights in Guangzhou, China.
Chinese Takeaway Meal Delivery By Drone?
Food delivery drone with a payload of 6 kg is currently being used in Shanghai, China by Ele.com …
What Do China’s Delivery Drones Look Like? – JD.Com Spotlight
China’s JD.com is one of the few companies actually using delivery drones…
Deutsche Post To Test Ground Based Mail Delivery Drones
PostBOT is a rolling mail delivery robot that will accompany German postal workers and help them carry up to 150 kg (330 lb) of post and parcels…
Drones Used To Deliver Packages – A Database of Drone Delivery Systems
New delivery drone database containing payload, range and basic unit descriptions for a variety of drone delivery systems currently in the market.
Pizza Pie in the Sky! – A Brief History of the Goal to Use Drones to Deliver Pizzas
A brief history of how the commercial scale pizza drone delivery concept started and where it might go. Drone pizza delivery videos are included!
Drones Going Postal – A Summary of Postal Service Delivery Drone Trials
A summary of drones delivering mail…
Chinese Delivery Drones with 15 kg Payload
Drone package deliveries at less than 0.5 yuan (7.6 U.S. cents) per parcel Chinese delivery drones with a payload of 10-15 kg are currently operating in Suqian City, China – JD[dot]com has two drones capable of handling 200 parcels a day. With a range of 15 to...
Perhaps Maersk wants to deliver a 10 kg cookie?
Beyond cookie delivery >>> Maersk wants to deliver 10 kg packages over 10 kilometers via delivery drone In January, the company made a drone fly 250 meters from one of its barges to a tanker and drop off a batch of cookies. It’s now looking for a...
Walmart to use inventory drones at their 190 U.S. distribution centers
Walmart is getting ready to use inventory management drones in their distribution centers. Taking 30 pictures per second, the drone can catalog in one day what would take human employees one month using handheld scanning devices. Expected timeline is 6-9 months until...
DHL’s ParcelCopter 3.0 – A Tiltwing Delivery Drone
Bavarian Tested >>> The DHL ParcelCopter 3.0 Designed for integration into its logistic chain and as a tool for improving infrastructure in hard-to-reach areas, over a three month period the latest version of DHL’s ParcelCopter was rigorously tested....
Catalonia at the vanguard of drone development?
UAVs in Catalonia are highly ranked (4 out of the top 10 worldwide as per one research study). Reasons? Catalonia has extensive drone history (since the 1980’s) They have the BCN Drone Center (a specialist drone center with 2,500 hectares of segregated airspace...
Drones in Japanese Golf Courses
Starting May 9, Rakuten will test drone deliveries on a golf course in Japan. The drones can provide food, snacks and small accessories (e.g. new golf balls) to players while they are out on the course between 8:30 am and 3 pm. Maximum parcel weight is 2 kg. Minimum...
Google’s Talking Delivery Drone
“Caution: Stay Back,” the Google delivery drone might say… An April 25th patent outlines how Google’s tether-based delivery mechanism would be complemented by multi-colored warning lights and matter-of-fact voice commands. Will you be looking forward...
Delivery bots instead of delivery drones?
An Estonian start-up will produce small 6-wheeled autonomous delivery bots that look “like a fridge on wheels with blinking LED lights” to deliver about 2 grocery bags worth of cargo…
Delivery Drone Service Concepts – Lifting Railroad Freight Containers with Cargo Container Stacking Drones
Can delivery drones be used in other areas besides home delivery? Are Cargo Container Stacking Drones (CCSDs) feasible?
Walmart Joins the Delivery Drone Race!
Walmart to test drones for home delivery, grocery pickup and warehouse inventory management. Likely to use DJI S900 drones with 5 kg (11 lb) payload capacity…
Disruptive and Innovative Parcel Drone Deliveries Down Under
Australia Post has confirmed they are aiming for a 2016 parcel delivery drone trial with a major e-tailer (electronic retailer). Max payload weight – 10 kg or …
Driverless Mining Trucks in the Australian Outback – The Truck of the Future?
The Rio Tinto mining group currently operates a fleet of 69 automated trucks collectively moving approximately 20 million tons of iron ore per month at …
Dynamic Drone Duo – Parcel Delivery Edition
Is a one-two drone punch what commercial delivery drone operations need? Dynamic drone duos are proving that sometimes two drones are better than one….
Singapore Post (SingPost) Delivers Mail by Drone
SingPost announced today that they had successfully completed a last mile mail and packet drone delivery trial via quadcopter over Serangoon Harbour in Singapore. Its payload? A letter and a T-shirt…
How much weight can delivery drones carry?
Payload capacity is one of the major obstacles to full-fledged and profitable commercial drone delivery networks. The average weight UAVs roughly classified as commercial delivery drones can carry is approximately 4.8 lbs (2.2 kg). Below you will find a table/graphic comparing the payload capacity of top delivery drones…
UAV Equipped Delivery Trucks: Why Dogs Will No Longer Be Able to Bite the Mailman
Why Dogs Will No Longer Be Able to Bite the Mailman – an unmanned, wirelessly recharging octocopter that can attach itself to the top of a delivery truck and autonomously deliver packages …
Self-balancing Unicycle Parcel Delivery Drones – The Transwheel Concept
The Transwheel concept is best described as a self-balancing, unicycle parcel delivery robot drone which has a vague resemblance to Universal Pictures’ Minions…
Amazon’s Drone Highway – Organizing the Drone Friendly Skies
Amazon proposes safe and efficient airspace access and integration for low-altitude, UAVs by focusing on a “segregated airspace” below 500 feet (152 meters)…
Four day Experiment of e-Commerce Delivery Drones in Finland
Posti (a Finnish postal, logistics and e-commerce services company) will be testing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) /delivery drones for the first time in Finland .
Getting the Par-TEA Started: Alibaba Tests Parcel Delivery Drones in China
Real world test allowing 450 people (on a first-come-first-served basis) to order ginger tea and receive it via UAV in less than an hour for only 49 renimbi (US$ 7.84).
500 Drone Deliveries a Day – Drone Delivery Services Booming in China
In China, S.F. Express performs approximately 500 drone deliveries a day and has plans to expand its area of services to seven regions while at the same time doubling the number of daily packages it delivers.
Swiss Postal Delivery via Drones – Tests to run until end of July
Switzerland’s postal service, Swiss Post, announced on Tuesday, July 7th, that it had begun testing parcel deliveries via unmanned cargo drones. Tests will run until the end of July.
German Cargo Drones Delivering Blood Samples
A chain of three hospitals wants to use drones to transport blood and lab samples in Frankfurt, Germany.
Cargo Delivery Drones Public/Private Partnership in South Korea
South Korea’s Ministry of Public Safety and Security has partnered up with CJ Korea Express to develop and provide drones that can deliver disaster relief supplies.
Cargo Delivery Drones – Flying Soon Near You
Firtey will be the first company to demonstrate the practicality of commercial drone deliveries in the US as part of a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved test flight slated for July 17.
The Age of the Cargo Drones – How Will Your Goods Be Delivered?
Autonomous Last Mile Delivery Solutions – Amazon, Matternet and Container Delivery Direct from Cargo Ships …
Next Generation Unmanned Short-Sea Cargo Ship
The creation and implementation of unmanned cargo drone ships is inevitable. They appear to be safer, cheaper and more environmentally friendly – benefits that greatly …
Amazon Drones: Delivery in 30 Minutes for $1
New York based ARK Investment Management has quantified how much a same-day drone delivery would cost compared with delivery truck and …
Autonomous Freight Truck in the U.S.
The Daimler Freightliner Inspiration Truck is the first licensed autonomous commercial truck to operate in American highways…
Unmanned Autonomous Cargo Ships
Rolls-Royce envisions cargo drone ships that would be safer, cheaper and less polluting for the $375 billion shipping industry that carries 90 percent of …
DHL Delivery Drones in Germany
The first autonomous delivery flight authorized in Europe was performed by DHL in Germany. Its purpose? To deliver medicine and other necessary goods to a small North Sea island…