drones News Updates

Shell received U.S. approval to become the first oil producer to use drones on offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico to speed post-hurricane inspections.

Zipline is in talks to raise around $1 billion in a funding round that would value the drone delivery and logistics startup at roughly $20 billion.

Boeing will take an almost 20% stake in Archer and enter into a technology-sharing arrangement, through which Boeing will retain access to the Wisk core autonomous flight technology for its current and next-generation commercial and defense aircraft.

“We collided with a drone back there in the turn,” the pilot told an air traffic controller. “It hit us right above the cockpit.”

This is the first time that consumers in the company’s home market will be able to try out the technology.

Zipline, a drone delivery and logistics startup, has raised more than $600 million in new funding, boosting its valuation to $7.6 billion, as it expands commercial deployments.

A pair of Amazon MK30 drones hit a stationary crane on Oct. 1. The FAA and NTSB said they’re investigating the crashes.

Tests with Flytrex’s autonomous drone delivery system will begin in Uber Eats pilot markets by the end of the year.

The federal government had already approved 657 waivers to allow companies such as Amazon and major utilities to do this in certain circumstances, but the waiver process made it difficult.

Walmart is adding drone delivery in five new cities in a bid to expand online sales and get goods to shoppers faster.