Sentences with phrase «by drone in»

Amazon just made it's first delivery by drone in the UK in December 2016.

Domino's famously delivered the first pizza by drone in 2016 to a New Zealand couple.

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JD.com said it had raised $ 2.5 billion by selling a stake in its logistics business, which it will use to invest in new technologies like drones and robotics.

The commercial drone market is nascent today — roughly a billion dollars in sales globally — but it's growing like mad, with many companies, Aeryon included, increasing sales by 100 % each year.

Similar attempts to smuggle contraband by drones have taken place at prisons in other U.S. states.

Why it's hot: The industry is being driven by a rapid uptick in machine vision and artificial intelligence capabilities as well as increasing interest in the commercialization of drones, autonomous cars, and other robotics applications.

The attacks have showcased the depth of Iran's military presence in Syria: Iranian drones launched from areas around Damascus allowed Revolutionary Guard commanders to assess the damage done by the missiles in real - time.

There are even realtors interested in using drones for aerial photography, which is currently prohibited by the FAA, and a sailing coach interested in applying drones to maritime sport.

«This was an isolated event during a demonstration for the reporter and photographer only, given by the licensed operator of the drone during the last day of this particular promotion,» TGI Friday's said in a statement to Entrepreneur.

There was a case recently about a woman in Quebec who was injured by a drone while she was doing a run.

It may sound a little like something out of an episode of the «The Jetsons,» but the reality is the Federal Aviation Administration is required to implement regulations to integrate commercial drones into the national airspace by 2015, meaning flying robots are going to become a lot more common in the U.S.

In fact, Graham said Tuesday that an idea floated by his Democratic colleagues to have special judges overseeing the drone program sounds «crazy to me.»

The retail giant is showcasing two of its Prime Air drones to attendees of this year's annual South by Southwest festival in Texas.

Last year, Flirtey made the first Federal Aviation Administration - approved drone delivery in a rural area by dropping off emergency supplies to a health clinic in Virginia.

Some zeroed in on the cost, calling it a «drone tax,» while others argued that local and state governments might complicate matters by creating their own regulations.

By taking some (or all) of that in - house, Amazon could conceivably better control those costs, especially if drone delivery becomes as widespread as the company hopes it will.

In September that year, a 26 - pound bundle of marijuana, possibly carried by a drone, crashed into a dog house at a home in Nogales, Arizona, near the Mexican bordeIn September that year, a 26 - pound bundle of marijuana, possibly carried by a drone, crashed into a dog house at a home in Nogales, Arizona, near the Mexican bordein Nogales, Arizona, near the Mexican border.

Later, Paul warned about the ambiguity over who could be targeted by drones, suggesting that they could have been used against Vietnam War protesters in the 1960s.

Last month, the World Drone Prix — organized by the World Organization of Racing Drones and Sheikh Hamdan, crown prince of Dubai — handed out roughly $ 1 million in prizes, including a $ 250,000 grand prize to a 15 - year - old British pilot who bested 100 other competitors at a two - day event in Dubai.

Huerta said that the FAA projects that nearly 7 million drones may be sold in the U.S. by 2020, or «about two - and - a-half times the population of the state of Nevada.»

JD.com, the country's biggest online direct retailer and Alibaba's top rival, said it tested delivery by drone to customers in four rural areas in what the company believed to be the first commercial use of such service.

The goal is to demonstrate just how vulnerable drones currently in use by police forces around the world to execute critical missions are to hackers.

Foxx cited unnamed industry research, which projected that the commercial drone industry could bring in $ 82 billion for the U.S. economy as well as 100,000 new jobs by 2025.

«This is a concerning rate,» Dedrone CEO Jorg Lamprecht told CNBC, «especially in light of international incidents where drones have crashed into other aircraft, and been used by terrorists, and used in other illicit activities.»

For example, a drone crash - landed at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in September, causing significant hand wringing by law enforcement but no injuries.

3D Robotics, the Berkeley, Calf. - based drone startup founded by a former editor - in - chief of Wired Magazine, Chris Anderson, said Tuesday that it's partnering with China - based DJI.

In the project, which will be carried out by Alphabet's research arm X, human operators will fly drones carrying cargo beyond their field of vision.

But while drones have been touted as a way to relieve urban congestion, their real sweet spot is in delivering to hard - to - reach areas — such as rural locations inaccessible by road.

Industries are being transformed by breakthroughs in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, drones, robotics, the Internet of things, autonomous vehicles, nanotechnology, 3D printing, and on and on.

Lindbergh spoke about Air Shepherd ™, a program founded by the Lindbergh Foundation and now run exclusively by UAV & Drone Solutions, which won a 2018 Edison Silver Award in the Social Innovation - Surveillance category.

FILE PHOTO: A Phantom drone by DJI company, equipped with a camera, flies during the 4th Intergalactic Meeting of Phantom's Pilots (MIPP) in an open secure area in the Bois de Boulogne, western Paris, March 16, 2014.

Even as the company tests delivery by drone and ways to restock toilet paper at the push of a bathroom button, it is conducting a little - known experiment in how far it can push white - collar workers, redrawing the boundaries of what is acceptable.

It is the world's top consumer drone maker by revenue and in January its president, Roger Luo, was quoted by media as saying that 2017 sales were likely to have exceeded 18 billion yuan ($ 2.9 billion).

In a seeming acknowledgment that the long - anticipated disclosure would be greeted with skepticism by critics of the drone program, the administration issued the numbers on a Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend.

Micah Zenko, an expert in drone warfare at the Council on Foreign Relations, told The New York Times that of the eight U.S. citizens killed by American drone attacks, seven were killed unintentionally — including Warren Weinstein, one of the two hostages who died in the January strikes.

NRA members had already been informed that they wouldn't be able to bring firearms (or drones, knives and a list of other banned items) into a speech by Vice President Mike Pence at the organization's annual convention in Texas this weekend.

The best Flight Operations department in the drone industry, built by military veterans.

In early December 2013, Bezos made headlines when he revealed a new, experimental initiative by Amazon, called «Amazon Prime Air,» using drones — remote - controlled machines that can perform an array of human tasks — to provide delivery services to customers.

The business has carved out a defendable position in the electronics niche by focusing on the consumer drone industry, a niche forecast to reach $ 17 billion in revenues by 2020, and the lucrative earphones market, expected to reach $ 25 billion by 2024.

By: Simone Liedtke 25th November 2016 Mining companies need to be able to track their daily operations and have full visibility of their sites in real time without having to worry about putting in place time - consuming administrative systems to comply with the complex regulatory regimen for commercial drones, says commercial drone... →

In a historic milestone for the drone industry, this week AirMap and Project Wing in a test program led by the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership, successfully demonstrated an industry - leading solution to safety - critical airspace deconfliction challenges as part of the ongoing NASA - UTM trialIn a historic milestone for the drone industry, this week AirMap and Project Wing in a test program led by the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership, successfully demonstrated an industry - leading solution to safety - critical airspace deconfliction challenges as part of the ongoing NASA - UTM trialin a test program led by the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership, successfully demonstrated an industry - leading solution to safety - critical airspace deconfliction challenges as part of the ongoing NASA - UTM trials.

Yet another portfolio company is the autonomous drone maker Airobotics, which closed on $ 32.5 million in Series C funding last fall, led by BlueRun Ventures China, with participation from Microsoft Ventures.

At the heart of many of the new craft breweries launching in Canada these days is a familiar entrepreneurial narrative — guys or gals (but mostly guys) in office jobs tire of their drone lifestyles and choose to pursue their love of good beer by going into business for themselves as brewmasters.

Zipline builds drones and runs delivery services, dropping crucial medical supplies to clinics or hospitals in areas that aren't accessible by land.

Clearing this regulatory hurdle means that by early next year, Matternet partner Swiss Post plans to use the drones to deliver blood samples and other small parcels between hospitals in Lugano, a smaller city with a population of about 56,000.

By Arthur Holland Michel and Dan Gettinger 2015 was a very busy year in the drone world.

In 2004, India entered into negotiations with Israel to purchase Heron drones, according to a report by IHS Jane's.

These facts aren't exactly news, but this report, which was produced by human rights experts at Stanford and NYU, gives a voice to the people actually affected by drone strikes in Pakistan.

I wanted to be cool more than anything else then, and that is why, one droning hot afternoon, I muttered, aloud, loud enough to be heard by every being in the room, Do you keep your socks up with thumbtacks, Mister Bossy?

Someone took footage from a low budget movie called «Desert Warrior», did a fast overdub to add the offensive comments, and put it out on the net to obscure the fact that these people in the lands attacked by the US are actually angry over invasion, conquest, looting, drone strikes against civilians, torture, and being shot at by the United States on behalf of Israel.