Autonomous aircraft have long been thought of as having the most potential, though not in the realm of glitzy people-carrying drones so much as the more sedate world of cargo.

A California-based company has successfully conducted an autonomous cargo flight demonstration. The flight test ...

Skyways has secured a $5 million investment to boost production of its V3 autonomous cargo drones for the U.S. Department of ...

Elroy Air has raised a $40 million Series A, including financing from Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm, to ramp up the building, testing and validation of its inaugural autonomous cargo drone.

Elroy Air's Chaparral is an autonomous, hybrid electric vertical take off and landing drone designed to pick up a pod loaded with 300-500 pounds of cargo, fly it to a destination as far as 300 ...

Autonomous cargo drones are coming, but at what cost? by Felicia Shivakumar. Jun 10, 2019, 4:00 PM UTC. A new generation of plane-sized autonomous delivery vehicles is capable of carrying ...

MightyFly's new autonomous cargo drone carries 100 lb for 600 miles. The Cento drone is capable of "unprecedented" 600-mile, hundred-pound cargo deliveries. MightyFly. View 3 Images 1 / 3.

The autonomous cargo drone can carry out transport missions of almost 1000 km on its own and also drop off the cargo ...

Ørsted says it’s now the world’s first offshore wind company to use autonomous giant drones to transport cargo to turbines. Ørsted is trialing the 128-pound (58 kg) drones at the UK’s ...

For now, the autonomous drone will stick with middle-mile logistics between FedEx buildings instead of dropping packages off at people's doors or picking up from merchants.

MightyFly showcases its autonomous cargo aircraft and loading system in a live demo for the U.S. Air Force under its AFWERX ...

The state recently awarded a $150,000 grant to MightyFly, a California-based drone company, to perform autonomous cargo delivery flight demonstrations in Alpena in 2024.