The future of last-mile package delivery is fast and contactless, with delivery providers focused on eliminating traffic and parking challenges. An increasingly prominent option is the use of ...

Contactless delivery systems boomed during the COVID ... According to a recent study published in Cell Patterns, using quadcopter drones to deliver small, lightweight packages could reduce energy ...

Reducing the need for trucking by delivering some packages with electric drones could save fuel, and potentially carbon emissions. We modeled how much energy drone delivery would use, and how it ...

Size is important: A Lawrence Livermore study published in Nature Communications shows that a small quadcopter drone ... That means delivery drone use could be limited to ensure that it results ...

Not content to let Amazon (the world’s No. 1 retailer) have the corner on the drone delivery market, today Walmart announced its own plans to enter the quadcopter package-delivering fray.

That's why researchers at ETH Zurich have created a control algorithm that allows any quadcopter to keep ... most of the currently-proposed delivery drones are hexa- or octocopters.

These new airborne delivery drones, called Tactical Resupply Unmanned ... the Balikatan 2023 exercises in the Philippines. The TRUAS quadcopter fits a role the Marines call Small Unmanned ...