Zipline: What goes up, keeps raising Deep Dive Yves Le Marquand 5 May 23 0 Share prices, test flights, valuations, whatever goes up must come down right? For startups, in almost every case the rule sticks, but drone delivery unicorn,… Read more
Reliable Robotics and NASA complete flight tests to improve UAS safety news Yves Le Marquand 2 May 23 0 Reliable Robotics has been working with NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign since 2021 to on the integration of remotely piloted aircraft systems. As part… Read more
Revolution.Aero Dublin 2023 – As it happened news Yves Le Marquand 25 Apr 23 0 One day down and one to go at Revolution.Aero Dublin 2023. We have a packed agenda across the final day at the Westin Hotel, tackling… Read more
Whisper emerges from stealth with $32m Series A investment news Yves Le Marquand 20 Apr 23 0 Whisper Aero, a startup developing electric ducted fans, has emerged from stealth mode with a $32m Series A investment. The investment, led by a syndicate… Read more
Skyports, Loganair and Royal Mail launch Orkney Islands drone logistics project news Yves Le Marquand 12 Apr 23 0 Skyports Drone Services has launched a fully electric drone logistics project established in partnership with Royal Mail, Orkney Islands Council Harbour Authority and Loganair. The… Read more
ASL Future Flight awarded IAA’s light UAS operator certificate news Yves Le Marquand 12 Apr 23 0 ASL Future Flight has been awarded a Light UAS Aircraft Systems Operator Certificate (LUC) by the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA). The LUC is an optional… Read more
Zipline unveils new autonomous ‘home delivery’ platform news Yves Le Marquand 20 Mar 23 0 Zipline has unveiled its new platform that provides autonomous delivery directly to homes in cities and suburbs. The company’s home delivery platform is designed to… Read more
Manna receives investment from Coca-Cola, eyes US expansion news Yves Le Marquand 17 Mar 23 0 Manna Drone Delivery has announced investment from Coca-Cola HBC as its eyes US expansion of its drone delivery service. Coca-Cola HBC is the strategic bottling… Read more
Skyports Drone Services completes drone delivery PoC in Japan news Yves Le Marquand 16 Mar 23 0 Skyports Drone Services, in partnership with Kaga City and Kanematsu Corporation, has completed a drone delivery proof of concept (PoC). Since 2021 Kanematsu and Kaga… Read more
Wingcopter and ZAL to explore green hydrogen propulsion for drones news Yves Le Marquand 16 Mar 23 0 Wingcopter and Hamburg-based ZAL Center of Applied Aeronautical Research are to jointly explore green hydrogen to power Wingcopter’s drones. Already purely electric, by refitting the… Read more
Google company Wing reveals plans for drone delivery network news Yves Le Marquand 10 Mar 23 0 Wing, a subsidiary of Alphabet which owns Google, has unveiled plans for a drone delivery network. According to the firm, the economics of drone delivery… Read more
BAE Systems and Innovaero present Australia’s ‘first armed’ VTOL Strix news Yves Le Marquand 1 Mar 23 0 BAE Systems Australia has teamed up with Perth-based Innovaero to launch Australia’s “first domestically designed, manufactured and armed” VTOL known as Strix. The uncrewed air… Read more
Dronamics raises $40m in pre-Series A funding news Yves Le Marquand 17 Feb 23 0 Dronamics has raised a total of $40m in pre-Series A funding as the company approaches its first investment round. The cargo drone airline has received… Read more
Moya Aero: $2m Finep funding is ‘further validation’ of startup’s vision news Yves Le Marquand 14 Feb 23 0 Moya Aero’s vision for drone operations in Latin America has received further validation in the form of $2m funding from Brazil’s Funding Authority for Studies… Read more
Dronamics makes senior changes readying for commercial operations news Yves Le Marquand 1 Feb 23 0 Dronamics has made two senior appointments аs the firm readies for commercialisation of its same day delivery services later this year. Pete MacIntyre joins Dronamics… Read more