Where Matternet is going, it doesn’t need roads. But the people there need food and medicine. And these drones can bring it to them. Nearly one billion people in rural areas live without access to all ...

If drone delivery companies get to shape city streets to their liking, the curbside array of lamp posts, garbage cans and free magazine distribution boxes will be joined someday by docking stations ...

So far in the Drone Disruptors series, we've taken a look at two distinctly different players in the drone delivery space. Israel-based Flytrex hopes to become the drone of the U.S. suburbs, flying ...

Matternet, a startup building autonomous drones for delivery, has been working to commercialize its tech via transportation of blood and pathology samples to labs. Taking traffic out of the equation ...

A worker loads a UPS-branded box that will be used to carry lab specimens onto a Matternet drone on the WakeMed hospital campus in Raleigh, N.C. A Matternet quadcopter carrying lab specimens will fly ...

Startup Matternet has been operating at the edge of drone delivery technology for years, and has now taken an important step forward. The company’s M2 drone has received a Type Certification from the ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Matternet, the developer of the world’s leading drone delivery system, today announced that it has been granted a Production Certificate by the Federal Aviation ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Matternet, the developer of the leading urban drone delivery platform, today announced that it has received approval from the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (LBA), Germany ...

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When Andreas Raptopoulos and his team got stuck in a 20-truck convoy completely marooned in mud while navigating between villages in Papua New Guinea, it was incredibly frustrating. It was also a ...

Last week, the media world was abuzz with the news that e-commerce giant Amazon was experimenting with a new program dubbed “Amazon Prime Air,” which would use small automated “drone” aircraft to make ...

Nearly one billion people in rural areas live without access to all-season roads–meaning a large portion of the world’s population can’t get medication, food, and other supplies when they need them.