DroneUp Timeline

Events

• 2026-10-05 - Award - ANRA and other UAS developers receive FAA research awards under $12 million programme - ANRA’s four listed projects cover air-taxi integration, common altitude references, airport traffic-system integration and AI drone classification. Other work includes ground and airborne detect-and-avoid, satellite communications, drone identity, passive… - source: faa.gov
• 2022-05-24 - Deployment - Walmart and DroneUp expand drone delivery to 34 sites - The 34-site network was designed to reach up to 4 million U.S. households across six states. Walmart projected capacity for more than 1 million drone-delivered packages per year. - source: corporate.walmart.com
• 2022-01-13 - Commercial Order - Elsight delivers DroneUp Halo communications order - The order's value was approximately 80% of Elsight's revenue in the first half of 2021. The package links aircraft, field hubs and control centres with redundant command-and-control connectivity. DroneUp had begun multisite delivery operations in November… - source: elsight.com
• 2021-06-17 - Funding - Walmart invests in DroneUp after delivery trials - Walmart made a strategic investment in DroneUp after trial drone deliveries from Walmart stores. The companies had completed at-home COVID-19 test-kit delivery trials before the investment. Walmart linked the investment to building a scalable last-mile drone… - source: corporate.walmart.com