Medical/pharmaceutical transport

First time autonomous drones used for regular long-range deliveries into densely populated urban areas

According to cnbc.com, Zipline, a Silicon Valley-based drone delivery service, is helping government officials in Ghana to monitor the spread of covid-19 by delivering test samples collected in rural areas to medical laboratories in two […]

Medical/pharmaceutical transport

A First: Online Sri Lankan company Supiripola delivers medicines by drones to coronavirus quarantined area

According todailynews.lk, Supiripola a leading online goods company in Sri Lanka is catering to the needs of the country’s lockdown community by deploying drones to deliver medicines to the quarantined area of Grandpass and Nagalagam […]

Air taxis and personal transports

North Carolina A&T-led team awarded USD8 million to develop air-passenger taxis

Auvsi.org reports that to address traffic congestion, NASA has awarded an interdisciplinary team led by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (North Carolina A&T) a four-year, USD8 million award to develop, test and eventually deploy […]