Medical/pharmaceutical transport

“Drones for Good”: Ambulance drone completes longest distance delivery of human organ in UAS history

U.S. companies MissionGO and Nevada Donor Network, last week, successfully carried out two drone test flights carrying a human organ and tissue samples, reports emergency-live.com. MissionGO provided the Unmanned aircraft Systems (UAS) or what some […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Toyota establishes USD800 million investment fund Woven Capital for air mobility

Toyota has established an USD800 million global investment fund to support “growth-stage companies developing technologies and business models in areas including autonomous mobility, automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data and analytics, connectivity and smart cities,” […]

Research

Rolls-Royce finalises ground-testing of technology set to power “the world’s fastest all-electric plane”

Rolls-Royce has finalised trialling its ground-breaking technology that will power “the world’s fastest all-electric plane”, reports a company press release this week. The technology has been tested on a full-scale replica of the plane’s core, […]

First responders

COVID-19: Australia beaches to be patrolled by drones all summer to ensure social distancing with BIG fines for lawbreakers

Drones are being deployed to monitor social distancing and crowd numbers at some of New South Wales most popular beaches during their summer, reports dailymailaustralia.com. Hefty new fines have been announced for gatherings of over 20 […]