Verizon is bolstering its efforts in drones with the acquisition of Skyward, a Portland-based startup whose software helps commercial drone operators in industries such as construction and film production more… Read More
Amazon has come up with some wild and crazy patents, but a patent issued today has to rank among the wildest: It calls for turning the packages ejected by its delivery drones into… Read More
Amazon has sought patents for hitchhiking drones, mini-drones that can sit on shoulders, drones that assemble themselves like Lego toys – and now drones that flip their wings to go from vertical… Read More
It was quite a week for Seattle’s commercial real estate world. Snap Inc., the parent company of popular messaging app Snapchat, became the latest California tech company to make Seattle… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Would you be in trouble if an orca popped up out of Puget Sound beneath your drone? Should other maritime critters, such as humpback whales, be given their… Read More
It is not a great time to be a drone pilot in Seattle right now. On the heels of a drone crashing into Seattle’s Space Needle just before New Year’s Eve,… Read More
Seattle is proud of its growing virtual reality community and already boasts several promising VR and AR startups. But the young industry took a blow this week when startup Envelop VR… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — What’s the difference between photographing a piece of private property from a Cessna airplane and doing the same thing with a drone? And does Washington state want to allow… Read More
A patchwork of state laws governing drone operations would pose a “real problem” for aerial delivery systems like the one that Amazon is developing, one of the executives in charge… Read More
Drone sightings by commercial pilots are on the rise, and so is the Federal Aviation Administration’s research into systems that detect and defend against unmanned aerial vehicles. In cooperation with other… Read More
Flying your drone over another person’s private property could get harder. A bill to forbid privately owned drones from flying over someone else’s private property without the owner’s permission has… Read More
Right now, Amazon’s delivery drones are designed to drop off packages weighing no more than 5 pounds. But what if you could link up lots of drones? Then your bigger… Read More
Some patents seem so way out that you have to wonder if they’re a joke. Such is the case for Amazon’s patent covering an “airborne fulfillment center” that would launch… Read More
If there are any Robin Hoods out there who are thinking about shooting down drones while they’re making deliveries, Amazon has a patented plan to stop you. The patent, filed… Read More
Echodyne’s drone-sized radar system has received a vote of confidence – and a $118,721 award – from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The award, made through the department’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program,… Read More
In the race to make routine commercial deliveries via drone, Flirtey is going where Amazon hasn’t yet ventured: the United States. Today, the three-year-old Nevada-based startup reported that its autonomous drones made… Read More
Amazon’s multimillion-dollar effort to deliver goods via drone currently has just two customers in the English countryside, but this could well be the way a multibillion-dollar industry gets started. The current… Read More
Amazon said this morning that it completed its first-ever package delivery from a Prime Air drone to a customer in Cambridge, England, on Dec. 7 — a major milestone for the company… Read More
You don’t hear as much about Google’s (now Alphabet X’s) Project Wing as you do about Amazon’s Prime Air drones, but the flying-delivery project is still aiming to go commercial. That’s… Read More
The Boeing Co. says it has agreed to acquire Liquid Robotics, its teammate in a years-long effort to create surfboard-sized robots that can use wave power to roam the seas.… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. – A company called the Workhorse Group wants to beat Amazon to the punch and provide the U.S. Postal Service with thousands of electric-powered mail trucks equipped with… Read More
Seattle startup Unearth is finishing up its first fundraising round as it continues to build a product that will help construction teams avoid information and communications breakdowns that can cause major projects to… Read More
Apple is doubling down on its Maps app, assembling a team of robotics and data-collection experts to quickly update conditions using drones and add new features. And that team will… Read More
DJI, a Chinese-based company that makes and sells drones, will open its first “authorized retailer” in Washington state at the Marketplace @ Factoria mall in Bellevue, Wash. this week. The store… Read More
Regulators have to work out lots of issues before they let drones start delivering packages routinely, but in Britain at least, there’s a timetable. “We’ve got a soft target of… Read More
Eric Ringer wears a lot of hats. On any given day, his role could be R&D engineer, product manager, drone operations consultant, or flight operations specialist. His official title is… Read More
If you wanted a Starbucks latte with your drone-delivered Chipotle burrito, it appears you’re going to have to wait a while as a new report says that the Seattle-based coffee… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. – A radar-equipped drone is blazing a trail for the day when flying robots fill the skies – and deliver your packages. The drone took to the air last… Read More
Someday, you’ll be printing out a landing pad to guide an Amazon drone to its delivery, or maybe taking a suborbital space trip on a Blue Origin rocket ship, or… Read More
Amazon is working on adding an Alexa-like digital brain that can control drones small enough to fit in someone’s pocket and capable of locating lost items, cars and people, among… Read More