Zipline, an instant logistics and delivery company, announced that its urban drone delivery system, Platform 2, will be used by Mayo Clinic facilities in Jacksonville, Florida, and Rochester, Minnesota, to deliver items to patients of the medical center's hospital-at-home program.
Platform 2 is an autonomous electric delivery drone that can hold eight pounds of cargo and travel 10 miles within...
On Wednesday, Amazon Pharmacy announced the launch of free drone delivery for prescription medications in 60 minutes or less for eligible customers in College Station, Texas.
Over 500 medications for common conditions will be available via drone delivery, including flu, asthma and pneumonia. Once an order is placed, a pharmacist will load the medication into a Prime Air drone and ensure delivery...
Digital pharmaceutical marketplace Retailio has tried out drone medicine delivery in collaboration with drone logistics firm Redwing Labs.
The pilot programme was conducted in the Chickkaballapur district in Karnataka. With an average speed of 90 kilometres per hour and a payload weight of up to two kilograms, the hybrid VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) drones covered about a 10-km distance...
Launched in 2017, Australia-based aeromedical logistics company Swoop Aero announced that it has closed a Series A funding round with returning investors Right Click Capital and Tempus Partners. The startup will use the latest eight figure sum capital injection to establish a presence in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), as well as expand its service offering across the medical logistics space. ...
SOS Alarm, the company that operates Sweden’s 112 emergency number, is to use drones to deliver Automated External Defibrillators (AED) for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) for the first time in a trial that begins in June.
The clinical study into the use of emergency medical drone transport for real incidents is the latest phase of a research collaboration between SOS Alarm, the Center for...
Swiss Post and Matternet will start transporting lab samples by drone between hospitals in Switzerland again, months after putting the project on hold.
A panel of aviation experts were asked to review safety processes following two incidents in which a drone made an emergency landing and was recovered from the bottom of Lake Zurich, while another crashed close to a group of children that were...
We might be seeing more drones delivering life-saving medical supplies as German manufacturer Wingcopter announced today that it landed “seven-digit” financing from Singapore-based Corecam Capital Partners. The exact amount secured was not revealed.
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Since its founding in 2017, the Darmstadt-based startup’s eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) drones have been used in...
