Unmanned drone deliveries are making their way inside the UPS network. Thanks to a partnership with drone startup Matternet, UPS will start delivering medical samples via unmanned drones at WakeMed’s hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina. With the approval of the Federal Aviation Administration and North Carolina’s department of transportation, UPS and Matternet will conduct routine […]
View More UPS partners with drone startup Matternet for medical sample deliveriesCategory: Drone
Drone analytics startup Aria Insights suddenly shutters
Earlier this year, Helen Greiner-founded drone startup Cyphy Works announced a major change. The company was rebooting and renaming itself Aria Insights, a move that arrived with a new-founded, AI/data-driven focus. Now, just over two months later, the company is no more. Reports that Aria had shuttered began surfacing earlier this week. Moments ago, the […]
View More Drone analytics startup Aria Insights suddenly shuttersThe Holy Stone HS230 RC racing drone is down by almost £40 for a limited time
Drones have had some really bad publicity lately but they are not supposed to be flown near airports. We repeat: Drones do not belong near airports. Please don’t fly your drone near any airports, guys.
They are supposed to be used for a variety of ot…
JD.com’s drones take flight to Japan in partnership with Rakuten
Chinese e-commerce company JD.com is taking its drone delivery system to Japan. Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce giant, just announced a partnership with JD that will see its drones and unmanned vehicles become a part of Rakuten’s own unmanned delivery service efforts. JD has been operating drones in its native China for a number of years, […]
View More JD.com’s drones take flight to Japan in partnership with RakutenUK’s extended 5km airport drone ‘no-fly’ zones in force next month
The UK’s Department for Transport has said today that an expansion of drone ‘no-fly’ zones to 5km around airport runways will come into force on March 13. Anyone caught and convicted of flying a drone inside the restricted zones could face a fine and years in prison. Last month the government said it would tighten […]
View More UK’s extended 5km airport drone ‘no-fly’ zones in force next monthArnaud Thiercelin and Laura Major will be speaking at TC Sessions: Robotics + AI April 18 at UC Berkeley
Just over two months out, and our third TC Sessions: Robotics + AI event is shaping up to be another good one. We’ve already announced Anca Dragan, Alexei Efros, Hany Farid, Melonee Wise, Peter Barrett and Rana el Kaliouby. We’ve got some great demos planned for the event, as well — you can still get […]
View More Arnaud Thiercelin and Laura Major will be speaking at TC Sessions: Robotics + AI April 18 at UC Berkeleypi-top’s latest edtech tool doubles down on maker culture
London-based edtech startup, pi-top, has unboxed a new flagship learn-to-code product, demoing the “go anywhere” Pi-powered computer at the Bett Show education fare in London today. Discussing the product with TechCrunch ahead of launch, co-founder and CEO Jesse Lozano talked up the skills the company hopes students in the target 12-to-17 age range will develop and […]
View More pi-top’s latest edtech tool doubles down on maker cultureChina’s JD.com tests drone delivery in Indonesia in first overseas pilot
We hear a lot about drones having the potential to revolutionize delivery and logistics. It’s easy to be dismissive — in many cases, a robot may take what would be a human’s job — but there are some examples where drone technology could genuinely be transformative. One such case is Indonesia, the world’s fourth largest […]
View More China’s JD.com tests drone delivery in Indonesia in first overseas pilotThis hole-digging drone parachutes in to get the job done
A new drone from the NIMBUS group at the University of Nebraska can fall out of a plane, parachute down, fly to a certain place, dig a hole, hide sensors inside it, and then fly away like some crazy wasp. Robots are weird. The goal of the project is to allow drones to place sensors […]
View More This hole-digging drone parachutes in to get the job doneThis aquatic drone will make your underwater shots look stunning
You’re probably familiar with instagram accounts that have crazy cool drone footage of city landscapes, but what about the world beneath the waves? Navatics’ MITO is here to make underwater photos and videos more accessible, at a $1,499 price tag. Ch…
View More This aquatic drone will make your underwater shots look stunningUK police to get more powers to curb drone misuse after Gatwick fiasco
The UK government has announced new powers for police to tackle illegal use of drone technology, including powers to land, seize and search drones. This follows the recent Gatwick drone fiasco when, just before Christmas, a spate of drone sightings near the airport caused a temporary shutdown of the runway, and disruptive misery for thousands of people at one of […]
View More UK police to get more powers to curb drone misuse after Gatwick fiascoUK police release airport drone suspects and admit there may not have been any drones after all
Less than a week after mystery drones grounded flights at the U.K.’s second largest airport, wreaking havoc on as many as 140,000 people’s travel plans for the Christmas period, police have admitted that there may in fact not have been any drones at all. Gatwick airport reopened on Friday after a one-day shutdown but it appears that investigators […]
View More UK police release airport drone suspects and admit there may not have been any drones after all