UPS and Wingcopter of Darmstadt are to build delivery drones with a range of 75 miles and a top speed of 150mph.
‘Drone delivery is not a one-size-fits-all operation,’ says UPS’s Bala Ganesh, ‘our collaboration with Wingcopter helps pave the way for us to start drone delivery service in new use-cases.’
UPS has a project called Flight Forward to
develop drone delivery services. It is developing different drones to
fit different customer needs e.g. fast ones for time-sensitive
deliveries and robust ones for difficult geographies and flying
conditions.
Last year UPS beat Amazon and Alphabet to being the first company to get
approval to use drones for parcel deliveries from the US Federal
Aviation Authority.

