When you think of drone delivery, you probably imagine a mid-sized drone carrying a coffee or a small snack to a customer waiting outside their home in a residential area. What you won’t think of is a large, pilotless, multi-rotor machine carrying cargo over choppy waters to a massive wind turbine. But that’s exactly what …
DJI appears close to unveiling the Mini 4 Pro, the successor to the Mini 3 Pro that launched in May last year. First, as a reminder, DJI’s smallest and lightest “Pro” drone tips the scales at just 249 grams, a carefully considered move as it’s just 1 gram below the drone weight category that involves …
Professional drone racers are the latest to suffer the ignominy of being outsmarted by artificial intelligence after quadcopters powered by the technology beat them at their own game. Wearing first-person-view headsets linked to a camera on their drone, the champion racers had great difficulty keeping pace with the AI flying machine, called Swift. Developed by researchers …
Walmart Wing and Walmart have both been developing their own drone delivery platforms for a number of years, and now the two companies are joining forces to launch a drone delivery service in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. In the coming weeks, the diminutive flying machines from Alphabet-owned Wing will fly items from two Walmart Supercenters …
UK’s First Drone Delivery Service Launched by Royal Mail in Orkney The Royal Mail in the U.K. has taken a leap into the future by launching a daily drone delivery service for the remote Scottish islands of Orkney. This marks the first regular postal service in the country to be powered by a remotely controlled …