drone delivery

UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) said Tuesday that its commercial drone unit had made its first revenue deliveries of prescription drugs from a CVS Corp. (NYSE: CVS) pharmacy in North Carolina to customers' residences. The first two deliveries occurred last Friday in Cary, North Carolina. The first flight...

UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) said late on October 21 that it expanded its commercial drone operations to include deliveries for large healthcare providers, created an Internet-of-Things platform for time-critical healthcare shipments and broadened its e-commerce ties with digital shipping companies such as...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime Air vice president Gur Kimchi held an audience of clean technology and environmental policy experts spellbound as he laid out the company's futuristic vision of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) darting around the sky delivering packages to consumers in 30...

Maple Leaf Motoring is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of Canadian transportation. This week: Drone Delivery Canada unveils ops center and pricing, transport employment declines and Prince Rupert gets more than C$150 from feds. Drone Delivery Canada (TSXV:FLT) moved closer to...

From the manufacturers floor right to your door, technology is ramping up in autonomous and the last-mile delivery space.

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) on Wednesday unveiled a "hybrid" design for its autonomous delivery drones that the company said will enable the machine to more easily transition between a helicopter-like vertical mode for take-off, to an airplane mode while in transit, and then back to the...

Air Canada Cargo will offer drone-based services thanks to a new agreement with Drone Delivery Canada (TSXV: FLT), a Toronto-based startup that makes autonomous cargo aircraft and a proprietary flight platform. Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) announced the agreement on June 4. Air Canada (TSE: AC)...

Healthcare drone delivery startup Zipline has raised $190 million in a new round of funding, taking its valuation to over $1 billion. The new funding will be used to further expand its reach across Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Americas. Zipline operates autonomous drones across remote...