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Skyports buying up London rooftops for future drone network

UK startup Skyports is investing in London rooftop spaces with a view to building a drone infrastructure network. Company bosses hope their 'vertiports' will become...

Kroger to use driverless cars for last-mile grocery deliveries

Kroger, America’s largest supermarket chain, will be rolling out a driverless grocery delivery service in partnership with Nuro, a company started by two former...

Amazon Hub puts a parcel management depot in your home

Receiving items from online retailers can be frustrating when you live in an apartment block. Delivery drivers invariably stop by when you're out, or...

Amazon booms as high street withers. Next up: robots and insurance

UPDATED Retail and Web services giant Amazon plans to add over 2,500 permanent jobs in the UK this year, taking its British workforce to...

US government announces 10 drone pilot schemes – omits Amazon, DJI

The US has announced 10 pilot schemes to test unmanned aerial technologies and explore drones' potential to help communities and businesses throughout America. Chris...

Pentagon: Military will have self-driving vehicles before public

The US Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Michael Griffin, has told Capitol Hill lawmakers that the Pentagon will reap the benefits...

Starship Technologies scales up autonomous delivery service

Robotics startup Starship Technologies is set to expand its autonomous delivery project to universities and business campuses across the United States and Europe. The move...

Baidu hits the road against Alibaba with driverless food deliveries

Search and AI giant Baidu is collaborating with Meituan-Dianping to deliver food to China's towns and cities via driverless cars. Baidu and Meituan are set to...

LivingPackets uses IoT, crowdshipping to transform deliveries

LivingPackets is using the IoT to disrupt the courier and postal industries, combining the latest technology with crowdshipping to reduce the carbon footprint of B2B...

Amazon takes on government in battle over deliveries

Chris Middleton explains why the US government's attacks on Amazon have revealed an uncomfortable truth for Jeff Bezos' company: there simply aren't enough people...

DHL US trials robots, AI, AR & crowdsourcing to beat Amazon

Parcel delivery and logistics firm DHL said today that it is piloting a range of new connected technologies in the US, including collaborative robots,...

Waymo turns the ignition on self-driving trucks

Having put its first fleet of fully self-driving cars on the road, Waymo is turning its attention to self-driving trucks. Since its beginnings as Google’s...
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