drone Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/drone/ Mechanically-minded travel Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:44:58 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 1 Million Deliveries by Autonomous Drone https://mechtraveller.com/2024/04/1-million-deliveries-by-autonomous-drone/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/04/1-million-deliveries-by-autonomous-drone/#respond Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:11:30 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=9938 Zipline, a company specialising in autonomous drone delivery systems, announced on Friday that it had just completed one million paid commercial drone deliveries to customers. The company, headquartered San Francisco, has developed and operates its own autonomous drones which have now flown more than 70 million commercial miles across four continents and delivered more than […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/04/1-million-deliveries-by-autonomous-drone/feed/ 0 The Royal Mail is trialling the use of drones to deliver to the Scilly Isles https://mechtraveller.com/2021/05/the-royal-mail-is-trialling-the-use-of-drones-to-deliver-to-the-scilly-isles/ https://mechtraveller.com/2021/05/the-royal-mail-is-trialling-the-use-of-drones-to-deliver-to-the-scilly-isles/#respond Fri, 14 May 2021 13:40:35 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=6857 The Royal Mail has announced a trial of the first out-of-sight, autonomous scheduled drone flights between the UK mainland and an island. The trial will use Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flights initially to deliver Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), COVID testing kits and other mail to the Isles of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall. The […]

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