Taking the spotlight from Amazon, Walmart and DroneUp set up drone delivery hubs in Arkansas Walmart is partnering with Virginia-based DroneUp on a network of drone delivery hubs, starting with a neighborhood market in Farmington,… Read More
FAA issues safety rules that could smooth the way for Amazon drone deliveries After months of feedback and fine-tuning, the Federal Aviation Administration today issued its final versions of safety rules for drones… Read More
Self-driving delivery vehicles plus self-flying drones? Now there’s an Amazon patent for that For a long time, Amazon has been looking into applications for self-driving vehicles — and testing fleets of self-flying drones… Read More
Amazon aims to patent fulfillment centers that can ride the rails and dispatch drones If Amazon follows through on a pair of patent applications, future fulfillment centers could be transported on their rounds by… Read More
A drone that’s an on-demand data server? The perfect patent for Amazon’s ambitions Amazon is well-known for developing delivery drones, and for delivering data through Amazon Web Services — so it had to be… Read More
Amazon Prime Air drone gets delivered to Smithsonian for museum display in 2021 Amazon’s drone delivery service is still in its experimental phase, but it’s already destined to become a part of American… Read More
Amazon patent covers how to signal a delivery drone (and how it signals back) For an earlier generation, one of the sweetest sounds of summer was the music coming from an ice-cream truck. For… Read More
10 teams win federal approval to push the limits with drones, but Amazon’s left out The U.S. Department of Transportation has selected 10 state, local and tribal governments to oversee pilot projects that will go… Read More
Protect your Amazon drone-delivered package? There’s an APP airbag for that Seven years after Jeff Bezos had the idea of putting an airbag on your smartphone, Amazon’s inventors have kicked it… Read More
Why Amazon patented a delivery drone that’s designed to self-destruct Most inventors look for ways to make their machines more robust, but Amazon has won a patent for delivery drones… Read More
Amazon’s delivery drone hive looks like it came from a sci-fi movie nightmare If filmmakers ever decide to do a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” with drones instead of birds, they could… Read More
Amazon seeks patent for system that links up drones to create a Borg for deliveries Right now, Amazon’s delivery drones are designed to drop off packages weighing no more than 5 pounds. But what if… Read More
Video: Jeff Bezos shares big ideas, from Amazon’s drone landing pads to a 10,000-year clock Someday, you’ll be printing out a landing pad to guide an Amazon drone to its delivery, or maybe taking a… Read More
Why this 9-year-old visited Amazon’s secret drone facility, and delivered a package to Jeff Bezos A few days before the New Year, a 9-year-old boy named Evan was granted a wish: to fly from his hometown of… Read More
Amazon’s lobbying nearly doubles as it pushes for new drone regulations Building a fleet of drones to deliver packages to your door in 30 minutes isn’t cheap, but one of the… Read More
FAA chief urges drone registration task force to ‘think outside the box’ The head of the Federal Aviation Administration told the members of a policy task force to “think big, and think outside… Read More
Take look at the drone Facebook developed to connect the entire planet We see a lot of drone news around here, but Facebook’s video behind the engineering of its Internet.org drone is… Read More
Amazon’s delivery drones may track you down to deliver packages Amazon’s drone delivery is still a little ways off at least, but we got another glimpse at the future today… Read More
