By Chris Stonor On January 27th, a panel of leading UAM experts will be discussing 13 different topics from ‘Last-mile delivery: the race to satisfy
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Rumour Mill: Is Terra Drone entering the air taxi business?
By Chris Stonor Rumours flying around UAV circles is that Terra Drone is entering the air taxi business after forming a tie-up with Tokyo-based start-up
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Major drone issue to resolve: U.S. University explores how to reduce “whiny noise”
By Chris Stonor Time and time again when the public is asked their view on delivery drones, three concerns are always cited. Privacy, collisions and…
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France Covid-19: Top watchdog bans police from deploying camera drones to enforce lockdown
By Chris Stonor Today, France’s top privacy watchdog, CNIL, has banned police from using drone-mounted cameras to enforce Covid-19 lockdowns, as well as for monitoring
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Dominican Republic: WeRobotics announce latest partnership with Pfizer for medical drone delivery
By Chris Stonor Pfizer has contracted WeRobotics for another medical drone delivery project, but this time for using a more powerful craft. WeRobotics previous Pfizer
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UK Covid-19: Portsmouth council deploys drones “to monitor people flocking to city’s seafront” as pandemic worsens
By Chris Stonor As the pandemic worsens in the UK with deaths from Covid-19 now at an average of 1,000 per day, councils around the
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First-ever autonomous drone delivery completed in Latvia
By Chris Stonor Last month, Latvia successfully trialed its first-ever autonomous drone delivery, reports suasnews.com. A package consisting of mobile phones was flown to the elderly
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Archer and Fiat Chrysler partner on constructing eVTOL aircraft
By Chris Stonor California-based startup, Archer, announced this week it has entered a partnership with Fiat Chrysler Automative (FCA) to construct an eVTOL aircraft with
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Thumbs down? GM surprises with autonomous Cadillac and flying car concepts
By Chris Stonor “CES 2021 wouldn’t be CES without some bonkers, far-out vehicle concepts, and thankfully, General Motors brought two,” reports theverge.com. These “two surprises”
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Watch video: EHang carries out air taxi sightseeing trips in Hengqin New Area, China
By Chris Stonor Last week (January 8th) a fleet of EHang 216 AAVs carried out passenger-carrying flights over Tianqin Park on Henqin New Area, reports
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