drone deliveries

India’s Airbound bags $8.65M to build rocket-like drones for one-cent deliveries

Airbound, an Indian drone startup, has raised $8.65 million in seed funding led by Physical Intelligence co-founder Lachy Groom, as it begins a drone-delivery pilot with a private hospital and works toward one-cent delivery using its ultra-light, blended-wing-body aircraft. The seed round includes participation from Humba Ventures and Airbound’s existing investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, as […]

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Londoners will soon see drones ferrying blood between hospitals

As part of a new, joint pilot program by U.K. startup Apian, Alphabet’s drone company Wing, and the U.K.’s National Health Service, drones will soon be used to fly urgent blood samples between two hospitals in London.  As part of the six-month pilot program, drones will deliver urgently required blood samples for surgery patients —

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