Miscellaneous

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AirMule tactical Unmanned Aerial system UAS transport medical evacuation vehicle Israeli Industry

Uploaded on Jun 25, 2011


AirMule tactical Unmanned Aerial System UAS for air logistic transport and medical evacuation.

[Airicist]

Article "Domino’s trials new drone delivery system for pizzas (https://metro.co.uk/2013/06/05/dominos-trials-new-drone-delivery-system-for-pizzas-3829035)"

by Jimmy Nsubuga
June 5, 2013

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/0if2PM6OBrI

Can a pizza be delivered by a robot?

Published on May 19, 2014


Can a pizza ever be delivered by a robot? Here's the answer.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/z_wq9L66wUw

Japanese shoppers treated with futuristic experience

Published on Mar 5, 2015


Shoppers in Japan had a glimpse of what the future of shopping could be like on Thursday as shoemaker Crocs experimented with drones. Report by Hettie Maylam.

[Airicist]

Article "New Postal Service delivery fleet could include drones (https://www.federaltimes.com/story/government/management/facilities-fleet/2015/04/20/postal-service/26077869)"

by Andy Medici
April 20, 2015

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/fPwgCmCkzPU

A puppy is not a product

Published on May 7, 2015



Drone delivery of puppies is not real, but puppy mills are. If at any time getting a puppy feels like shopping online or at a store, take a step back and do more research. A puppy is not a product. Visit apuppyisnotaproduct.com to learn how you can bring a puppy into your home responsibly. Don’t buy into puppy mills.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/DpMMxnp7Lso

1 Martian Way (1MW) - 1MW Burger Dropping Drone

Published on Jun 17, 2015


1 Martian Way's Burger Dropping Drone @ Burger King India Launch Event at Phoenix Mills Mall in Mumbai. The team built a custom gripper and release mechanism actuated by the onboard camera with accurate burger drop of the whopper burger to the winning participant below

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/tgeh607ZXA0

The real deal with Groupon

Uploaded on Jan 15, 2012


Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is in the business of bargains, and business is very good. But is Groupon's swift success sustainable, especially given competition from the likes of Google and Amazon? Lesley Stahl reports.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/VwBgQthX9rM

Drone-based parcel delivery in Finland

Published on Oct 8, 2015


Finnish Postal office (Posti) together with Sharper Shape Ltd and Verkkokauppa using robotic helicopters in e-commerce deliveries.

[Airicist]

Article "Exclusive: Wal-Mart seeks to test drones for home delivery, pickup (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wal-mart-stores-drones-exclusive-idUSKCN0SK2IQ20151027)"

by Nathan Layne
October 27, 2015

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/LPQFzzy7bnM

Aerial ground robotic system for autonomous delivery tasks

Published on Oct 28, 2015

[Airicist]

Artile "Animals vs. Drones: Should Close Encounters Be Banned? (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/animals-vs-drones-should-close-encounters-be-banned-n451736)"

by Keith Wagstaff
November 1, 2015

[Airicist]

Article "From Land Robotics To Drones - The Future Businesses Set To Impact Retail Deliveries (https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelarthur/2015/11/24/from-land-robotics-to-drones-the-future-businesses-set-to-impact-retail-deliveries)"

by Rachel Arthur
November 24, 2015

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/lmD3rXUR1Tw

Roasting the holiday Turkey

Published on Dec 7, 2015

[Airicist]

"Meet the Drone That Already Delivers Your Packages (https://blog.bolt.io/meet-the-drone-that-already-delivers-your-packages-2a2d7cf7714f)"

by Ben Einstein (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?7166)
January 14, 2016

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Article "Amazon Has Spent Nearly $10 Million Lobbying for Drone Delivery (https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/kraft-just-changed-its-classic-mac-and-cheese-and-used-psychology-to-ensure-its-.html)"
The e-commerce giant is growing its presence in Washington, D.C. to persuade lawmakers to open up the skies to its autonomous drones.

by Will Yakowicz
March 21, 2016

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/ESY7jLaegCA

Published on Apr 8, 2015

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https://youtu.be/LCq4AAwtkfk

Burritos by drone

Published on Apr 3, 2016


Not only is the Easy Drone XL portable and easy to control, it also can deliver burritos!

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/4rldf35BAgs

UPS partners for drone deliveries in Rwanda

Published on May 9, 2016


Drones delivering vital medical supplies to Rwanda will take to the skies in July 2016. UPS has partnered with drone company Zipline to deliver blood and vaccines.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/dPzhw7F3d8k

The International drone day - will soda glass survive?

Published on May 9, 2016

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/G_UHMj6fEzY

Here's how to get dessert delivered by drone

Published on May 24, 2016


Founder Michael Cirino promises to feed patrons well, as long as they promise to turn themselves over to his performance art-meets-catering whims.

[Airicist]

Delivery of medical products (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?15162), Zipline International Inc., San Francisco, California, USA

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/NJLzn3AmMlc

Robot deliveries coming to DC

Published on Aug 8, 2016


With the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently releasing new rules regarding commercial drone operations, it seems like it will only be a matter of time before the skies will be buzzing with drone deliveries. One company aims to take drone deliveries to the nation’s capital. Will Washington, DC soon see packages and pizzas delivered by drone? RT correspondent and producer Ryan Kerr investigates.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/4D6VQ2l9PXY

Google X’s Astro Teller on the future of delivery drones

Published on Nov 8, 2016


Google X’s “Captain of Moonshots” says that Harry Potter-style Owl Post isn’t that far off, with drones enabling immediate delivery of products and goods to people when they need them.

[Airicist]

Article "Lofty goals crash land while B2B drones prosper (https://robohub.org/lofty-goals-crash-land-while-b2b-drones-prosper)"

by Frank Tobe
November 15, 2016

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/UXWehAxZo6A

Droneports: the future of delivery

Published on Feb 17, 2017


How could an airport made just for drones help people in Africa? We explore a proposal that aims to improve communication, trade and boost employment across Africa by giving drones a safe place to land.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/8pFBufXOumw

Vision-based cable-suspended load transport with two quadrotors

Published on Mar 15, 2017


We propose a novel collaborative transport scheme, in which two quadrotors transport a cable-suspended payload at accelerations that exceed the capabilities of previous collaborative approaches, which make quasi-static assumptions. Furthermore, this is achieved completely without explicit communication between the collaborating robots, making our system robust to communication failures and making consensus on a common reference frame unnecessary. Instead, they only rely on visual and inertial cues obtained from on-board sensors.

Reference:
M. Gassner, T. Cieslewski, D. Scaramuzza
Dynamic Collaboration without Communication: Vision-Based Cable-Suspended Load Transport with Two Quadrotors, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017
PDF: rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/docs/ICRA17_Gassner.pdf (http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/docs/ICRA17_Gassner.pdf)

Our research page on multi-robot systems:
rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/research_multirobot.html (http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/research_multirobot.html)

Robotics and Perception Group (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=9280), University of Zurich, 2017

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/IcZEKbpa7HU

Swiss Post drone flights

Published on Apr 4, 2017

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/z2KcI8Fed78

Package delivery drone of the University of Moratuwa

Published on Apr 6, 2017


This hexacopter drone is fully autonomous. It can carry 1.5kg package easily and fly to a destination, land and drop the package, and fly back to the home all in fully autonomous mode. University of Moratuwa UAV Research Lab and Future Drones (Pvt) Ltd are developing this drone for applications such as package delivery, precision agriculture, and disaster management. The drone will soon be deployed for actual applications.

[Airicist]

Article "U.S. Marines Testing Disposable Delivery Drones (https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/drones/marines-testing-disposable-gliding-delivery-drones)"

by Evan Ackerman
April 17, 2017

[Airicist]

Article "Drone Demo Flight Breaks Records, Paves Way for Drone Delivery (https://www.govtech.com/fs/Drone-Delivery-Demo-Breaks-Records-Paves-Way-For-for-Drone-Delivery.html)"
The demo flight is one of the latest and longest drone-delivery tests conducted as the unmanned-aircraft industry.

by David Wicher
July 13, 2017

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/XcquycXcgs4

AT200 UAV maiden flight - “World’s first cargo drone”

Published on Oct 27, 2017


“World’s first cargo drone” - AT200 UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) made its maiden flight on 26 October 2017 in Shaanxi Province, China, flying for 26 minutes. The AT200 cargo drone can transport 1.5 tonnes of cargo flying at 6000 meters with a cruising speed of 313 km/h and a 2000 km autonomy. AT200 can take off and land on a 200 meters runway which could be useful in mountainous regions or on islands.
Credit: China Central Television

"China's AT200 cargo drone makes maiden flight (http://www.ecns.cn/2017/10-27/278721.shtml)"

October 27, 2017

[Airicist]

Article "China's deliverymen face robot revolution as parcel demand soars (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-singles-day-china-logistics/chinas-deliverymen-face-robot-revolution-as-parcel-demand-soars-idUSKBN1DA0RN)"

by Brenda Goh, Pei Li
November 10, 2017

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/QvjyDV8sNPo

Collaborative transportation

Published on Nov 23, 2017


In this video we present a robust approach to perform collaborative object transportation using multiple MAVs.

"Robust Collaborative Object Transportation Using Multiple MAVs (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321252750_Robust_Collaborative_Object_Transportation_Using_Multiple_MAVs)"

November, 2017

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/qs2VeyzRMzQ

Stanford students design and build autonomous delivery drones

Published on Feb 28, 2018


Stanford students in a mechanical engineering course fly prototypes
of drone delivery systems on quadcopters and design winged drones for long range flights.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/mYuwh6wXc98

Super fresh via drone delivery

Published on Jun 11, 2018

EHang, Inc. (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=13665), drones, Guangzhou, China

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/WRY0NQmYIS8

Giant delivery drones are coming, but at what cost?

Published on Jun 10, 2019


Companies like Google, Amazon, and UPS are planning to fill the skies with autonomous cargo-carrying drones. These new cargo drones are a fast and eco-friendly alternative to traditional package delivery that could save you time and money. But, before this trend can take off customers have to be comfortable with giant drones flying over their neighborhoods.

"Giant cargo drones will deliver packages farther and faster (https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/10/18657150/autonomous-cargo-drones-delivery-boeing-aircraft-faa-regulation)"
Autonomous cargo drones are coming, but at what cost?

by Felicia Shivakumar
June 10, 2019

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/exy26kYgOLk

UPS and CVS make residential drone delivery

Nov 5, 2019


UPS and CVS Pharmacy completed the first revenue-generating drone delivery of a medical prescription to a consumer’s home. This gives us a glimpse into a drone-filled future when the supply chain responds instantaneously to consumer demands in healthcare, retail and other industries powering international commerce.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/AxMlvqJjPXw

Small drones work together to lift and deliver packages

Mar 22, 2021


A research team at the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a modular solution for drone delivery of larger packages without the need for a complex fleet of drones of varying sizes. By allowing teams of small drones to collaboratively lift objects using an adaptive control algorithm, the strategy could allow a wide range of packages to be delivered using a combination of several standard-sized vehicles.