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Zipline's 2.5 millionth delivery is the wrong number to watch
The company says its U.S. delivery marketplace grew 13 times in the first half of 2026 as healthcare, restaurant, and retail programs expanded.
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DroneDeploy's three-hour benchmark for a 1,500-image map depends on what you feed it
The July release adds faster Aerial Pro processing, denser 3D output, revised volumetrics, and new dock-health tools, while several headline AI and robotics features remain early access.
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The Everest cargo record wasn't DJI's most useful result on the mountain
Manufacturer-reported missions joined cargo delivery, glacier photogrammetry, and atmospheric sampling in one high-altitude operating environment.
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Wing turned a 40-minute medical drive into a five-minute flight on one specific route
The South London service moves pathology samples between Nelson Health Centre and St George's Hospital under a continuing UK approval, with thousands of patient samples delivered so far.
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Amazon's Chicago plan tops out at 3,000 drone flights a day, and the comment window is open
The FAA opened a 30-day comment period on three proposed Prime Air centers, each analyzed at up to 1,000 MK30 delivery flights per day.
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1,070 drone docks, 4 million flights: autonomy is leaving pilot-by-pilot scale behind
Skydio says its customers now operate more than a thousand remote docks across three countries. The important number is not the hardware count, but the operating model behind it.
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Wing and Walmart add seven metros as drone delivery starts behaving like a network
The next expansion reaches Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, the Bay Area, and Salt Lake City as Wing works toward more than 270 Walmart locations.