Miscellaneous

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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.

 

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Delivery of medical products, Zipline International Inc., San Francisco, California, USA

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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Article "Lofty goals crash land while B2B drones prosper"

by Frank Tobe
November 15, 2016

 

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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.

 

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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

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

Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich, 2017

 

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Swiss Post drone flights

Published on Apr 4, 2017

 

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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.

 

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Article "U.S. Marines Testing Disposable Delivery Drones"

by Evan Ackerman
April 17, 2017

 

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Article "Drone Demo Flight Breaks Records, Paves Way for Drone Delivery"
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

 

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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"

October 27, 2017

 

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Article "China's deliverymen face robot revolution as parcel demand soars"

by Brenda Goh, Pei Li
November 10, 2017

 

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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"

November, 2017

 

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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.

 

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Super fresh via drone delivery

Published on Jun 11, 2018

EHang, Inc., drones, Guangzhou, China

 

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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"
Autonomous cargo drones are coming, but at what cost?

by Felicia Shivakumar
June 10, 2019

 

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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.

 

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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.