SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - UC San Diego Health unveiled a drone pilot program they are a part of, testing flights containing sensitive medical samples and documents. The idea is to skip over traffic on the ...

Drones. The mere mention of the word can incite a mix of terror, annoyance and fascination. Pranksters have flown drones over sporting events, paparazzi have used them to spy on celebrities' homes and ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins have set a new delivery distance record for medical drones by successfully flying human blood samples 259 kilometers, or about 161 miles, across the Arizona desert.

Johns Hopkins researchers have set a new delivery distance record for medical drones, successfully transporting human blood samples across 161 miles of Arizona desert. Throughout the three-hour flight ...

Delivery service UPS has teamed up with drone logistics specialist Matternet on medical sample delivery service at WakeMed’s hospital and campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. Drone transport has the ...

The results of common and routine blood tests are not affected by up to 40 minutes of travel on hobby-sized drones, a recent proof-of-concept study at Johns Hopkins demonstrated, promising news for ...

Two hospitals in Lugano, Switzerland have participated in a pilot program with the drones since mid-March, and Swiss Post, the logistics company, has completed more than 70 test flights between the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. A pair of hospitals in ...

Results of hematology and chemistry tests performed on blood samples flown for 3 hours on mid-level drones showed that long drone flights of biological samples are feasible. However, stringent ...

Many of the remote villages in the Ifanadiana district of Madagascar aren't linked to the outside world by decent roads. Among other things, this means that it can be very difficult getting medical ...

Autonomous delivery drone networks are coming to the US in earnest. UPS and Matternet are launching a drone "airline" that will use the robotic aircraft to carry medical samples between WakeMed's ...

Can Drones be Used for the Routine Transport of Laboratory Specimens? from Medical Drones on Vimeo. Unmanned aircraft (drones) can potentially be used for the transport of small goods such as clinical ...