Medical/pharmaceutical transport

Covid-19: NCDOT employs drones to help relief efforts

According to newsobserver.com, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) said this week that, starting in May, a public-private partnership will use drones to deliver critical medical supplies and food during the pandemic. Charlotte is among […]

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 […]

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Alphabet’s drone service sees “dramatic increase” in local deliveries of food and medicines

Google parent company Alphabet said this week that its Wing drones has seen a “dramatic increase” in delivering food and medicines during the coronavirus pandemic in rural Virginia with more than 1,000 deliveries completed in the […]

Medical/pharmaceutical transport

Charles Bombardier the visionary: The Ambular Project

In late 2017, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) began working on the future of aviation. One of their visionaries was Charles Bombardier, an internationally recognized futurist who produced hundreds of designs through Imaginactive, a […]

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Covid-19: Zipline pushes the FAA to bring extensive medical drone deliveries to USA

According to spectrum.ieee.org, Zipline is working with the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to attempt expedite safety and regulatory approvals for an emergency humanitarian mission to launch an extensive drone medical supply delivery network in America […]