Retail giant Walmart has started testing drone delivery of grocery and household essential items in a bid to take on e-commerce giant Amazon.
Walmart said it has partnered with Israel-based drone delivery company Flytrex to launch the pilot in Fayetteville,...
Your dream to get a pizza delivered by a drone or an Amazon drone knocking at the door will remain a dream as researchers have revealed that a drone delivery service is not realistic and may not be possible...
Amazon said Wednesday that it plans to use self-piloted drones to deliver packages to shoppers' home in the coming months.
"We’ve been hard at work building fully electric drones that can fly up to 15 miles and deliver packages under...
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has said that it has used drones to deliver packages over water for the first time.
Three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) carrying six boxes of passion fruit with a combined weight of around 12 kilograms flew from Putian in China's eastern Fujian...
E-commerce players like Amazon and Flipkart will be able to make airborne delivery of products to customers in India using drones enabled by technology being developed by the country's aviation sector, a minister announced on Thursday.
"E-commerce deliveries using drones...
The Government on Wednesday issued draft regulations on the civil use of drones, which will also enable commercial use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for photography, doorstep delivery, and even passenger transport.
The draft regulations -- arrived at after discussions with...
On Wednesday, Amazon was granted a patent for a shipping label that includes a built-in parachute "to enable the delivery of packages by aerial vehicles (UAVs) or other aerial vehicles".
The patent, as reported by GeekWire, was filed in August...
US e-commerce giant, Amazon, was awarded a patent earlier this week for a system in which a package would be "forcefully" propelled from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and would be helped to land by tools including a parachute.
The...
CB Insight's Zoe Leavitt recently discovered Amazon had filed for the patent in December 2014 for its Airborne Fulfillment Center (AFC). The online retailer had consequently, in April 2016, received the patent for its warehouse in the air.
The e-commerce giant says that...
A US-based drone delivery service has completed its first month in operation, successfully sending over-the-counter medicines, hot food items and cold beverages to customers' homes using GPS-enabled autonomous flying vehicles.
According to a PTI report: The company conducted regular weekend...