Windracers secures third round of funding from Future Flight at UKRI
Windracers has won a third round of successful funding from the Future Flight challenge at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to conduct further rigorous testing of its middle mile logistics drones and high-reliability autopilot technology.
Royal Mail reveals ambitious vision for more than 50 new postal drone routes in partnership with Windracers Group
Royal Mail today set out its ambition to scale up its use of drone technology and create more than 50 new postal drone routes over the next three years, subject to Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) approval, as part of a new partnership with Windracers, the logistics drone company.
Another Royal Mail First: Company trials delivering 100% of remote community’s mail by lower emission drone
This week, Royal Mail has started a trial of scheduled, autonomous flights for two weeks between Kirkwall and North Ronaldsay (both in the Orkney Islands) with Windracers Ltd to help better connect remote island communities.
Royal Mail delivers two UK firsts with Autonomous drone parcel deliveries to the Scilly Isles alongside inter-island drone deliveries of test kits
Royal Mail and partners have delivered two more UK firsts. As part of a specialist consortium, Royal Mail becomes the first UK parcel carrier to deliver mail to a UK island in a 70 mile out-of-sight, autonomous flight to the Scilly Isles.
50kg payload drone flight revolutionises Covid-19 NHS medical supply delivery in Cornwall
Windracers complete first successful UAV flight via an air corridor between mainland Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, funded by Innovate UK as part of a response to support the NHS with COVID-19 logistics
Windracers selected by UK government to develop UAV swarm technologies with the aim of aiding wild fire detection, mitigation and suppression.
Windracers has been selected by the UK Government to accelerate its UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) autonomous SWARM technologies.
Windracers ULTRA UVA drone to be used to transport medical supplies from mainland Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly in 30 minutes to support the response to COVID-19.
The trial, the first of its kind in Cornwall, is a key part of the Future Flight Challenge (FFC) project funded by the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
Windracers ULTRA UAV drone to be used to transport medical supplies to support the response to COVID-19 at St Mary’s hospital.
Windracer is working with Solent Transport to trial an innovative and fast UAV drone transportation service as a result of the COVID-19.