UnmannedAre Drones the Answer to More Equitable Health Care? The development of advanced air mobility vehicles is opening doors for the use of aircraft in new ways. While the use of drones for civilian and commercial missions is not widespread yet,…
UnmannedZipline Expands into Japan with Toyota Partnership Zipline and Toyota Tsusho, a member of the Toyota Group, have formed a partnership to use drone delivery service to enable healthcare access in communities in Japan, the companies announced recently. Zipline…
UnmannedZipline Drones to Deliver COVID-19 Vaccines Zipline, a drone delivery service, has partnered with a major COVID-19 vaccine supplier to create a cold chain capable vaccine distribution network using drones, the company announced on Feb. 4. This service…
CommercialJapan Airlines Continues Effort to Enable Future Drone Delivery Operations Japan Airlines (JAL) has established a new agreement with Matternet to evaluate future opportunities for the use of drones to provide healthcare deliveries, the latest in the carrier’s efforts to use unmanned…
IIOTVolansi Secures $50 Million Series B for Autonomous VTOL Cargo Delivery Volansi completed a $50 million Series B financing round led by Icon Ventures to continue development of its autonomous vertical takeoff and landing cargo drones. Other participants in the round include Lightspeed…
Air TaxiFCC Study Supports Using 5 GHz Band for Drone Operations A report submitted to Congress by the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau on spectrum allocation for unmanned aircraft recommended proceeding with rulemaking to enable the use of the 5030-5091 MHz band…
IIOTEASA Proposes Risk-Based Airworthiness Standards for Light Unmanned Aircraft The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) released a proposed special condition for certifying unmanned aircraft intended for use in medium- and high-risk applications, such as drone delivery flights over populated areas.…
Air TaxiConsortium Forming in Canada to Promote Commercialization of Drones, Air Taxis With partners across government, academia, industry and the investing community, the Canadian Air Mobility Consortium plans to lay the foundations for advanced air mobility across the nation, including drone delivery and passenger/cargo…
Air TaxiAre Low-Altitude Weather Services Ready for Drones and Air Taxis? As the Federal Aviation Administration continues down its “crawl, walk, run” path of incorporating drone delivery, passenger air taxis and other unmanned aircraft applications into the national airspace, development of low-altitude weather…
Air TaxiUPS Partners with Wingcopter to Develop, Certify Drone Delivery Fleet UPS’ drone delivery venture is partnering with German drone-maker Wingcopter to develop and certify new tiltrotor package delivery drones for a wide range of use cases in the United States and internationally.…