IR-LOCK Blog — Package Delivery
IR-LOCK Sensor Enables Docking w/ UPS Delivery Truck
The IR-LOCK Sensor appeared on a UPS delivery drone, developed by Workhorse.
Excerpt from Wired:
Companies like UPS and Amazon prize efficiency above all, and deploying a fleet of drones from a warehouse in the middle of nowhere wastes time. Making them fly all the way back wastes energy. And you still need trucks, because drones can’t schlep more than a few pounds. But if you put the drones in the truck and fling them at houses to cover the last...
IR-LOCK Enables Safe Landings for Workhorse Package Delivery
Excerpt from Inside Science
Want same day package delivery service? Keep a look out for a drone to drop it at your front door. Drone delivery is about to get real! Just a few years ago drone delivery seemed like a thing of the distant future. Not anymore. A company in Ohio, called Workhorse Group is testing package deliveries using drones...but there's a small twist. The drone comes out of the top of an electric delivery truck. After each delivery, the drone returns to the truck for its next package.
Martin Rucidlo, President of the Workhorse Group said,...
FOXNews: Workhorse Package Delivery Drone w/ IR-LOCK
The IR-LOCK Sensor appeared on FoxNews as a peripheral on WorkHorse's package delivery drone.
Excerpt from globalnewswire.com
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted a Certificate of Authorization (COA) to the Ohio/Indiana UAS Center and Test Complex, allowing Workhorse Group Inc. (OTCQB:WKHS) and the University of Cincinnati (UC) to continue their joint development of Workhorse Group's HorseFly™ UAS, which is designed to fly to and from a standard delivery vehicle. Testing of HorseFly will take place at the Wilmington Air Park in Wilmington, OH.
Collaboration between the UC's College of Engineering and Applied Science and the...