Matternet plans to launch its commercial drones to deliver food and medicine to people’s homes

Drone delivery is no longer a sci-fi pipe dream, it’s quickly approaching the “J Curve” of the exponential hockey stick. It’s the commercial cousin of the military and industrial drone application and it’s ready to scale.

The battle to deliver on the promise of drone delivery continues to heat up as regulators, customers, and the providers themselves learn what it takes.

First-ever UAS Type Certification Amendment is awarded to a new variant of the Matternet M2 Aircraft that will unlock scale and operational efficiency for Matternet’s customers.

Drone deliveries are evolving rapidly into a scalable and global transportation network for a range of goods, from medicines to fast food. Instead of jumping in your car and hitting the road to get what you need, the vision for the future is to get it delivered straight to your doorstep.

The CEO of a groundbreaking drone delivery company says the industry demands a whole new layer of infrastructure: ‘Given enough time, it’s going to happen’.

In an interview with Greater Zurich Area and Greater Geneva Bern area (GGBa), Oliver Evans, Head of Global Business Strategy at Matternet, highlighted Switzerland as the ideal location for the expansion of their drone activities.

Matternet’s Model M2 clears key regulatory ‘milestone’. Quadcopter specifications deemed safe for commerical use.

No one knows exactly how drone delivery will fit into the future of logistics, but one thing is for sure: The aircraft aren’t going to drop off important payloads directly onto someone’s lawn. Matternet’s Station, an automated landing space and payload control tower, may be the solution, and the flower-like structure has finally made the jump from render to reality at a medical facility in Switzerland.

Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines transported on Matternet M2 with end-to-end cold chain at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, in partnership with UPS

The drone delivery helps the community maintain social distancing measures, amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Service to The Villages from CVS comes amid virus lockdown. Flights with technology partner Matternet to start early May.

Matternet CEO Andreas Raptopoulos joins “Squawk Alley” to discuss the company’s new partnership with UPS to deliver medical samples with drones. Watch on CNBC.

The FAA's first sanctioned, revenue-generating drone delivery service involves speeding up the movement of blood and tissue samples.

UPS and Matternet are working together to help a hospital network get samples to the lab faster.

The funding for the Swiss autonomous drone logistics platform Matternet will aid its expansion into urban areas in the U.S. and elsewhere, and is a vote of confidence in what many already believe will be a standard feature of our lives in the near future.

Because autonomous delivery drones are undoubtedly coming, Boeing HorizonX Ventures, the aviation company’s venture arm, led a $16 million round in drone startup Matternet.

And it's got some clever new hardware to make it work.

During a medical emergency, every second matters–including the ones spent driving samples to and from external labs for testing. But what if they could be flown instead? That’s the idea behind a new fleet of delivery drones, developed by California-based Matternet for deployment in Switzerland.

The partners demonstrated a delivery live to an audience of media today, showing a coffee delivery from a small Swiss merchant using siroop’s platform.